How to change an Android app's name?

问题:

Is there a way to change the name (Launcher App Label) of an app without creating a new project?

Note: Name of the App and The label shown on the Launcher Icon on Home Screen on Mobiles can be different.

Example: On the home page in my Mobile where my apps are, I have an icon and the name Foo, but I want to change the name to Bar. Can I do this?

回答1:

Yes you can. By changing the android:label field in your application node in AndroidManifest.xml.

Note: If you have added a Splash Screen and added

<intent-filter>
            <action android:name=\"android.intent.action.MAIN\" />
            <category android:name=\"android.intent.category.LAUNCHER\" />
</intent-filter>

to your Splash Screen, then the Launcher Icon name will be changed to the name of your Splash Screen Class name.

Please make sure that you change label:

android:label=\"@string/title_activity_splash_screen\"

in your Splash Screen activity in your strings.xml file. It can be found in Res -> Values -> strings.xml

See more here.

回答2:

There\'s the android:label for the application, and the android:label for the launch activity. The former is what you see under Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications on your device. The latter is what you see under Applications, and by extension in any shortcut to your application, e.g.

<application
    android:label=\"@string/turns_up_in_manage_apps\" >
    <activity
        android:name=\".MainActivity\"
        android:label=\"@string/turns_up_in_shortcuts\" >
        ...
    </activity>
</application>

回答3:

This is a simple thing in Android Studio,

go to: res folder -> values -> strings.xml

change the app_name (in the bellow example:MitsuhoSdn Bhd) to any new name you want.

<string name=\"app_name\">MitsuhoSdn Bhd</string>
<string name=\"hello_world\">Hello world!</string>
<string name=\"menu_settings\">Settings</string>

回答4:

I noticed there are some differences in how the app name can turn up in Lollipop devices. Before Lollipop, you can have different app names with this:

<application
    android:label=\"@string/app_name\"> // <-- appears in manage app info
    <activity
        android:name=\".MainActivity\"
        android:label=\"@string/action_bar_title\"> // <-- appears in actionbar title 
        <intent-filter android:label=\"@string/name_in_icon_launcher\"> // <-- appears in icon launcher
            <action android:name=\"android.intent.action.MAIN\" />
            <category android:name=\"android.intent.category.LAUNCHER\" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
...

In Lollipop, it will be like this:

<application
    android:label=\"@string/name_in_manage_app_info\">
    <activity
        android:name=\".MainActivity\"
        android:label=\"@string/name_in_actionbar_and_icon_launcher\">
        <intent-filter android:label=\"@string/this_is_useless\">
            <action android:name=\"android.intent.action.MAIN\" />
            <category android:name=\"android.intent.category.LAUNCHER\" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

In Lollipop, android:label in intent-filter is basically useless, while actionbar title and icon launcher is identical. So, if you want a different title in actionbar, you have no choice but to set dynamically

getSupportActionBar().setTitle(R.string.app_name);

回答5:

You might have to change the name of your main activity \"android:label\" also, as explained in Naming my application in android

回答6:

It depends what you want to do. I personally wanted to rename my project so it didn\'t say MainActivity at the top of the app and underneath the icon on my phone menu.

To do this I went into the Android Manifest.xml file and edited

<activity
        android:name=\".MainActitivity\"
        android:label=\"@string/title_activity_main\" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name=\"android.intent.action.MAIN\" />

            <category android:name=\"android.intent.category.LAUNCHER\" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

And edited the android:name=\".Mynewname\" and then edited the string title_activity_main in the strings.xml file to match the name.

Hope that helps!

回答7:

if you want to change app name under launcher icon then change this android:label=\"@string/app_name\" inside your Main Launcher activity tag

        <activity android:name=\"com.test.app\"
                  android:label=\"@string/app_name\" >
                  <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name=\"android.intent.action.MAIN\" />
                    <category android:name=\"android.intent.category.LAUNCHER\" />
                  </intent-filter>
        </activity>

And if you want to change app name inside

Settings -> Application manager -> downloaded

where you have all installed applications then change this android:label=\"@string/app_name\" inside application tag

<application
        android:icon=\"@drawable/ic_launcher\"
        android:label=\"@string/app_name\"
        android:theme=\"@style/AppTheme\" >

            ........

        <activity android:name=\"com.test.app\" >
        </activity>

             .......

 </application>

回答8:

To change the name of your Android application in Android Studio or Eclipse, you have to change the value of the property android:label defined inside the <application> node in AndroidManifest.xml

 android:label=\"My Cool Application!\"

by default the name of the application is referenced to a string defined in strings.xml file, for example:

 android:label=\"@string/app_name\"

so, we have to change the value inside the strings.xml file:

  <string name=\"app_name\">My Cool Application!</string>

回答9:

<application
      android:icon=\"@drawable/app_icon\"
      android:label=\"@string/app_name\">
          <activity
            android:name=\"com.cipl.worldviewfinal.SplashActivity\"
            android:label=\"@string/title_activity_splash\" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name=\"android.intent.action.MAIN\" />
                <category android:name=\"android.intent.category.LAUNCHER\" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

</application>

To change android app\'s name , go to activity which is launcher activity and change its label like I have done above in my code.

回答10:

Nevermind I found it. It can be done in the manifest file under application just set the android label. Was thrown off at first becasue it didn\'t change my shortcut of the application\'s name.

回答11:

Edit the application tag in manifest file.

 <application
    android:icon=\"@drawable/app_icon\"
    android:label=\"@string/app_name\"
    android:theme=\"@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen\" >

Change the label attribute and give the latest name over there.

回答12:

1. Go to Strings.xml file under values.
2. Change the app_name tag to your app_name to want and it is all set, you will be able to see the name you change now.

回答13:

Yes Of-course........Android Supports to change the name of the App before making build just like iOS (Build Configuration). You can change it by Modifying the Android manifest file for the project.

回答14:

The change in Manifest file did not change the App name,

<application android:icon=\"@drawable/ic__logo\" android:theme=\"@style/AppTheme\" android:largeHeap=\"true\" android:label=\"@string/app_name\">

but changing the Label attribute in the MainLauncher did the trick for me .

[Activity(Label = \"@string/app_name\", MainLauncher = true, Theme = \"@style/MainActivityNoActionBarTheme\", ScreenOrientation = ScreenOrientation.Portrait)]

回答15:

change the app string resource to your new activity