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Change App Display Name

How can I change just the App display name that is under the icon? I can't seem to get anyway to work.

Thanks

— asked July 29th 2010 by donovan lewis
  • app
  • change
  • display
  • name
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  • Got it to work. The app will have a pair of files like, MYAPP_Prefix.pch
    MYAPP XC.xcodeproj in the /build/iphone directory. You'll end up with duplicates after you rename your app so delete the old pair(s) or you'll get a build error. Change the <name> node in tiapp.xml – mine underlined it in red when I added a space but it seems to be fine in the actual build so I ignored that error. I also changed the manifest. @Sagar was right. Lastly, I found the simulator was crashing after this on launch so I just reset it. In the iOS Simulator, go iOS Simulator > Reset Content and Settings…
    After that it worked fine and appears correctly, even with a space.

    — answered April 29th 2013 by Andrew Blair
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  • Thats not what I'm talking about Caio. I'm talking about the name of the app that is under the icon when its on the phone.

    — answered July 29th 2010 by donovan lewis
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    • But that's what I'm talking about. When you submit it for approval you get to change it, it's one of the first steps on itunes connect. While you're testing it you're stuck with the project name.

      — commented July 30th 2010 by Caio Iglesias
  • You either have to create a new project with the name you want or change the name in the info.plist file. Well those are the ways that I know at least.

    — answered July 30th 2010 by Eddie Monge
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    • Everytime I change the name in the info.plist it always just gets changed back when I rebuild the app.

      I want to have a + in the app name but I can't do that in the project name because when I go to submit the project it will always fail because you can't have a + anywhere.

      — commented July 30th 2010 by donovan lewis
    • which info.plist are you changing it in?

      — commented July 30th 2010 by Eddie Monge
    • I have tried both Info.plist.template and Info.plist If I change it in Info.plist.template it will do nothing.

      — commented July 30th 2010 by donovan lewis
    • You can't set a name in the info.plist when it contains a space

      — commented April 16th 2013 by Joris
  • You need to copy the info.plist file in you project's root. The build process will replace the one in the iphone directory with yours.

    Anybody has an idea on how to do the same thing on Android?

    — answered April 5th 2011 by Christian Brousseau
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  • I edited the manifest file found in the project root, then reimport.

    — answered May 11th 2011 by mitchell amihod
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    • How to reimport? Is it export and then import?

      — commented September 7th 2011 by Simon Strandgaard
  • I have done an experiment and found that if you open a Project Explorer in Ti Studio and rename the app's folder, the app's name in the simulator changes.

    Hope this helps.

    Andy

    — answered August 31st 2011 by Andy Savage
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    • Doesn't work if you have any non-ASCII characters in the name..

      — commented July 28th 2012 by Taner Girgin
  • I suppose that if you change the XML tag

    <name></name>
    

    in your tiapp.xml and you make sure you clean everything, it'll change the Product Name.

    — answered March 19th 2013 by Nicolas Embleton
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    • Hi Nicolas,

      If you dont write anything in the below XML Tag Then App gave the error.

      anf if you want to change the name of the app then write in below XML tag

      <name>Sample</name>
      

      and then clean build and run the app.

      It will change the Product Name as you want.

      thanks

      — commented March 19th 2013 by Jigar Maheshwari
    • Hi Jigar, yes, true, it was just here for description purpose. But you need a Product Name in order to build. Thanks for pinpointing it.

      — commented March 19th 2013 by Nicolas Embleton
    • I did just this but when i try to open the app it comes unfortunately stopped.

      — commented July 9th 2014 by Vishnu Khaunte
  • You can change it using

    <name>Application Name </name>
    

    in

    tiapp.xml

    — answered March 19th 2013 by Sunny Patel
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    • that doesn't work when the name contains a space

      — commented April 16th 2013 by Joris
    • @J L :

      It working fine for me.

      https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72783403/Patl.png

      Look that app name pat l. it contains space

      — commented April 16th 2013 by Dharmik Patel
  • Hi, J L

    You can change it using

    <name>Application Name </name>
    

    in tiapp.xml

    and

    #appname: Application Name
    

    in manifest

    Try this this will help you

    — answered April 16th 2013 by Sagar Patel
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    • Thanks, in the end I solved it by creating a new project with the right name and by moving over all the project files

      — commented April 22nd 2013 by Joris
  • That is probably the name of the project while you're just testing it. Once you submit it to the App Store for approval you get to pick your company name and your app name again.

    — answered July 29th 2010 by Caio Iglesias
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