How to use flavors with different app names in Android studio?

Question

In my app-level build.gradle I have the following flavors:

productFlavors {     originalFlavour{     }      freeFlavour{     } } 

The thing is building both flavors I get the same App Name. Instead I would like to have different app names for each flavors. Just adding a suffix would be useful. Hope someone could help me.

Thanks in advance

EDIT:

app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     package="z.fncapps.etsiipod"  >      <uses-permission         android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE"         android:required="false" />      <uses-feature         android:name="android.hardware.telephony"         android:required="false"/>      <application         android:allowBackup="true"         android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"         android:label="@string/app_name"         android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >          <!-- actvities declared here -->     </application> </manifest> 

app/src/freeFlavour/AndroidManifest.xml

<uses-permission      android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE"     android:required="false" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>  <uses-feature    android:name="android.hardware.telephony"    android:required="false" />  <application     android:allowBackup="true"     android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"     android:label="@string/app_name"     android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >      <!-- actvities declared here --> </application> 

Answer 1

Remove the app_name string from your existing strings.xml file, then you can do this:

productFlavors {     originalFlavour{         resValue "string", "app_name", "Original Flavor Name"     }      freeFlavour{         resValue "string", "app_name", "Free Flavor Name"     } } 

Then the existing reference to @string/app_name in your manifest will refer to a generated string resource, which is based on the flavor selected.

Note that if you specify a label for your launch Activity (by defining the android:label xml tag in the <activity> element), that value will be used in many user-visible places rather than your application's label. To overcome this for your case, you can just remove the label from your <activity> element altogether. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/13200774/2911458 for more details on this distinction.

Answer 2

You could use a string resource in AndroidManifest.xml:

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

And then use different values resource files for each flavor in ../app/src/ folder:

The key of this solution is that you could create localized strings.xml files inside each values folder for each flavor: /res/values/, /res/values-pt/, /res/values-es/, etc.

Each string.xml could have app name localized, the default (/res/values/) for Free Flavor Name could be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources>     <string name="app_name">Free Flavor Name</string> </resources>