How to change package name of Android Project in Eclipse

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I have an Android project created in Eclipse  I want to modify the package name and application of the project  How do I do that in Eclipse

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I had big trouble with this too   I renamed the project and the package via refactoring  but it rendered the app useless  I renamed it back to the original and used the Android tools to rename the package and this worked  but my package folder and classes had the old name   I then refactored the package folder  Now the app wouldn t run  My manifest was a mess  It doubled up my launcher name for example  com ronguilmet app com ronguilmet com class  I fixed that  and I had to manually edit all activities

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Following worked for me in eclipse   Go to AndroidManifest  search and replace old package name with new one and update everything when saving  Go to your root project package then press F2  write new name  and check Update References and Rename subpackages check boxes  After this everything was red in project  complaining about R import for every java file  because it wasn t changing closing tag of my custom view-s in layout xmls  After I changed these manually  everything was back to normal  That is it

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One extremely important notice   NEVER use a direct package names as in something similar to passing a string value containing the package name  Use the method getPackageName    This will make the renaming dynamic  Do whatever to reach the method getPackageName     In Eclipse Juno  the correct way of renaming is    Go and edit the manifest  Remove every old package name in the manifest  Put instead of the old package name  the new package name in every location inside the manifest  You might have classes  Activities that is  that need direct package name references  Save the manifest  Then right click the package name inside the project  Select  Refactor   Select  Rename   Type the new package name  Select  update references   Press OK and you re done and watch out also what should be done to replace the new name  Don t forget to also update the layout XML files with the new package name  You might have a custom View  Look for them

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Just right click on the project name and select Android tools and click Rename Application Package name and rename it  It s only for Android projects

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Just get Far Manager and search through for the old name  Then manually  in Far Manager  replace everywhere  Sadly  this is the only method that works in 100  of the possible cases

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Press F2 and then rename it  or right click on the project and select Rename   It changes wherever that package is declared in your project  It s automatically renamed all over

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As usual  by pressing F2 on the package name  you can rename or change the package name  and also by right-clicking and then select Rename option  you can change or rename the package name   When you press F2  it will show you the dialog box as     In this dialog  don t forget to check the  Update references  checkbox because by making  check  to this check-box  it will make changes to all the references of the package which are referred by other components of project

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OK here s what I had to do   Problem   I had a base project that I wanted to use as a starting point for several other projects that would be in the same workspace as the base project   The base project was already under GiT control in my own local repo   It was time to duplicate the base project   MyBaseApp   to become the starting point for  MyKillerApp    Solution    I just duplicated the overall MyBaseApp directory as MyKillerApp and had the two directories side-by-side  I edited file MyKillerApp-  project and changed the name from MyBaseApp to MyKillerApp    This was necessary for step 3 to work   I opened Eclipse and did a File- Import of MyKillerApp  I left out some details about how to use the Import menu  but click around  you ll figure it out   I right clicked on MyKillerApp in the package manager and chose Android Tools- Rename Application Package to MyKillerApp   I checked all the options for renaming except the last checkbox about non-java files  I highlighted src- com myname MyBaseApp in the package manager and did an F2 to MyKillerApp   Then I did the same to a few classes including my opening activity class thing that goes into your AndroidManifest xml file  I had to update a few function call names but the compiler pointed them out to me handily    Thus I had a new project derived from a base project with no nomenclature left over from the base project and it was in its own local GiT repo

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To change the app name when in Android  go to res values strings xml and change app name to what you want

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Right click on your project name and select Android Tools   then click   Rename Application Package  then change your project name click OK and   click Finish

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Renaming an Application- The Complete Guide    A  for changing Just the application name     App name which is displayed below icon      in the Manifest xml file  in  lt application tag       android label  YourAppName      then do the same in All the  lt activity Tags            B  For changing EVERYTHING      folder names  Package names  Refrences app name  etc      1  Renaming package names in gen folder and manifest xml       Right Click on Your project       Android tools- Rename Application Package     2  Renaming package names in src folder        Expand src folder  Click on package  Single click         Press Alt Shift R       Check Update references and Rename subpackages          3  Renaming the app s main Folder  Optional        click on the application s folder  Single click        then Press Alt Shift R      4  Renaming application name- Refer  A

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None of this worked for me until I combined the two answers mentioned in this post   Step 1  Right click on the project -  Select Android Tools -  Rename application Package   This will change all the files in the gen folder and in AndroidManifest but will not change the package name in the src folder so I followed Step 2   Step 2  Inside src folder Right Click your package name -  Refactor -  Rename -  Enter the new name that you entered in Step 1   Just to make sure Check AndroidManifest if there is still the old package name and replace with the new one  in my case inside the  uses-permission  tag    Then close the Eclipse and Reopen it  Uninstall the app from your device and install it again and everything should be working fine   Hope this helps and saves your time

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This worked perfectly for me  simple text replace    Go to search -  file  Containing text  old pakage name  File name pattern     Scope  workspace  Press Replace  Replace  new package name  Now your project is full of errors   Click your package in project explorer and press F2  rename    Fill in the new package name and check all checkmarks   Press Preview   Click OK   Wait for Eclipse to refresh  If there are still errors  clean all projects in the workspace   Project -  Clean

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This is a bug in the Eclipse Android tools   To fix  Right click on the project  go to Android tools -  Rename application package   And also check AndroidManifest xml if it updated correctly  In my case it didn t  and that should solve this problem

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Goto the Src folder of your Android project  and open the Java file   Change the package OldName android widget to newName android widget   It gives you an error like this     The declared package  newName android widget  does not match the expected package  OLDName android widget    To fix this problem  select Move filename Java to Newname android widget and delete the old package folder   Next step  Go to AndroidManifest xml and change  package  OldName android widget  to package  newName android widget

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None of these worked for me  they all introduced errors   The following worked for me    Right click the project and select Android Tools    Rename Application Package   Enter the new Package name  Accept all the automatic changes it wants to make  Say yes to update the launch configuration

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