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Android: How to customize the label under the launcer icon

Answer 1

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That text is in your AndroidManifest.xml at android:label:

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

You should change that string to fix your issue.

Macarse 2010-06-26 18:36:10

Since the manifest uses @string/app_name, you will actually want to change the name in the strings.xml resource file.

Guzba 2010-06-26 19:22:55

Yes, I tried this, however when I do that it also changes the name that appears in the top of each activity, which up till now had always been the name of the application...so would that mean that I need to manually set a name in each activity to override the default behaviour?

2010-06-26 20:10:51

@johnrock You can use a custom title bar.

Macarse 2010-06-26 20:36:24

There's no need to write a bunch of code to create a custom title bar when all you need to do is have two separate string resources.

Lee 2010-06-27 01:08:50

Answer 2

A:

Modify your res\values\strings.xml to have two strings:

app_name_wrappable = "App Name"
app_name = "AppName"

Then modify your AndroidManifest.xml (or anywhere else you want the wrapping behavior) to read:

<application 
    android:icon="@drawable/icon" 
    android:label="@string/app_name_wrappable">

And leave everything else the same as it is currently.

Lee 2010-06-26 22:08:33

-1: That will not change the behavior on the title bar.

Macarse 2010-06-26 22:33:11

Yes, that's correct. He didn't want his title bar changed, just his launcher icon text changed. Your solution changed both.

Lee 2010-06-27 01:07:48

@Lee: Title bar will get the text from `android:label` so adding other string to string.xml will not solve the issue.

Macarse 2010-06-27 04:58:51

I figure the way to do it is set the label as mentioned here, then call setTitle in the activity to label each activity specifically

2010-07-03 02:05:43

Wrong. Please take back the "right answer" mark!!

Zordid 2010-08-15 18:14:09

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