How to change an Android app's name?

Question

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?

Answer 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

 <activity     android:name=".SplashActivity"     android:label="@string/title_activity_splash_screen"     android:theme="@style/AppTheme">     <intent-filter>         <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />         <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />         <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />     </intent-filter> </activity> 

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

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