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vignesh
vignesh

Reputation: 1599

Setting Application Name in Android Devices

I implemented a android project named 'vignesh', in which i had source package as com.example.learn.android. In my tab while uninstalling the app, its showing com.example.learn instead of project name alone. Please advice..

Upvotes: 3

Views: 152

Answers (2)

D. Wonnink
D. Wonnink

Reputation: 306

If this is not working in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

<application 
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    ...>

</application>

Look for the startup activity(the activity with the android.intent.action.MAIN & android.intent.category.LAUNCHER), example:

<activity
   android:name=".SplashScreen"
   android:label="com.example.learn"
   android:noHistory="true"
   android:screenOrientation="landscape"
   android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >
   <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
   </intent-filter>
</activity>

You probably have the android:label mentioned just like the example above. The strange thing is that Android takes your first activity's name (label) as app name (I don't know why).

If you just remove (or rename) the android:label="com.example.learn" line it should be ok. Removing the line ensures that the app will look for the android:label tag defined in the <application> part of the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Upvotes: 1

dmaxi
dmaxi

Reputation: 3297

You can specify your application label in the AndroidManifest.xml

<application 
  android:label="@string/app_name"
  ...>

</application>

In the above example you have to define app_name in res/strings.xml

<string name="app_name">My app name</string>

Upvotes: 1

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