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ashkus
ashkus

Reputation: 185

Android change the name of app which is to installed on homescreen

How to change the name of the app which is to be displayed on home screen?

Whenever I try to change the android:label="title_name" inside activity of manifest file, title bar changes which is expected. But app name also changes in home screen to "title_name"

<application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"
            android:label="title_name"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
</application>

Is there any other method to change app name only?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2398

Answers (4)

tahsinRupam
tahsinRupam

Reputation: 6405

Android label tag is used for both Default Title bar and App Name in Home Screen

 android:label="@string/app_name"

If you want to change only App Name then change label and set Title Bar Text to your desire in onCreate() in your activity as below:

this.setTitle("Your Title");

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 3

Bhanz
Bhanz

Reputation: 484

You are changing the android:label under the activity tag, which is causing this issue.

Your application name is android:label="@string/app_name" under application tag, Go to the folder res/values/strings.xml where u can find something like this 

<resources>
    <string name="app_name">APP NAME</string>
</resources>

mention your application name at "APP NAME". This will work

Upvotes: 2

AjaiVeer Singh Sandhu
AjaiVeer Singh Sandhu

Reputation: 53

android:name attribute is for subclassing Application.

android:label attribute is for Application label(which is displaced on homescreen.)

Upvotes: 0

유정현
유정현

Reputation: 23

You can change 'app name' in strings.xml

example)

<string name="app_name">any</string>

Upvotes: 0

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