Naming My Application in Android

How to change an Android app's name?

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

See more here.

Naming my application in android

The launcher actually shows android:label and android:icon for activity(ies) that declare

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

so application label is of no use.

How can I change the app display name build with Flutter?

UPDATE: From the comments this answer seems to be out of date

The Flutter documentation points out where you can change the display name of your application for both Android and iOS. This may be what you are looking for:

• Preparing an Android App for Release
• Preparing an iOS App for Release

For Android

It seems you have already found this in the AndroidManifest.xml as the application entry.

Review the default App Manifest file AndroidManifest.xml located in
/android/app/src/main/ and verify the values are correct,
especially:

application: Edit the android:label in the application tag to reflect the final name of the
app.

For iOS

See the Review Xcode project settings section:

Navigate to your target’s settings in Xcode:

In Xcode, open Runner.xcworkspace in your app’s ios folder.

To view your app’s settings, select the Runner project in the Xcode project
navigator. Then, in the main view sidebar, select the Runner target.

Select the General tab. Next, you’ll verify the most important
settings:

Display Name: the name of the app to be displayed on the home screen
and elsewhere.

How to change app name per Gradle build type

If by "app name", you mean android:label on <application>, the simplest solution is to have that point at a string resource (e.g., android:label="@string/app_name"), then have a different version of that string resource in a src/debug/ sourceset.

You can see that in this sample project, where I have a replacement for app_name in src/debug/res/values/strings.xml, which will be applied for debug builds. release builds will use the version of app_name in src/main/.

What happens when I change my app's name?

No.

Every Android app has a unique application ID that looks like a Java package name, such as com.example.myapp. This ID uniquely identifies your app on the device and in Google Play Store.

Your application ID is defined with the applicationId property in your module's build.gradle file, as shown here:

android {
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.example.myapp"
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 24
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    ... }

When you create your project, the package ID and application ID are the same. But you can change them, and it’s the application ID that, well, identifies your app.

So you can chance your app’s icon and name to your heart’s content. As long as its application ID does not change, it’s the same app, and its reviews and download count do not change.

Does my Android application name have to be com.myAppName

No, you don't need to rename your app.

The name(com.****) you are talking about is the package name of your app. Infact, name of the app has nothing to do with the package name of your app.

Package name : This is an unique name, throughout the play store, for your app.

I'm seeing a lot of app names with "com." some name.

The reason for this is that popular app developers, rename their APKs with the package name and version, to help maintain the app better within the company and identify the app easily with the APK name. The reason they usually start with "com." is that (as I mentioned before if you want to place your app in play store, package name has to be unique) the domain names are obviously unique. So they give the package name to be their domain name in reverse followed by nickname of the app and then version number. For example com.facebook.katana_v90.0.0.20.70-36474238_Android-5.0.apk

App name : This is the name that appears under your app icon after it has been installed. It can be "anything" (may not allow some special characters and have a size limit).

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