Android: programmatically change the application label?

Question

It doesn't seem possible, but I was hoping someone may be aware of a way. Can the label of the application (the one defined in the manifest file by android:label="@string/app_name") be set from code?

Answer 1

That is read-only, AFAIK.

If your objective is to change the title bar of your activities, you can call setTitle().

Answer 2

I mostly use this to change actionBar's text pragmatically in onCreate() method....very easy!

getSupportActionBar().setTitle("yourString");