Naming Android App

Troubleshooting android
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Hi Guys,

I have compiled a few different apps for Android, that is all exciting, but they seem to all get the same name “MyGame”.

I tried changing both the Application Package name in Application > Android and the Title in Application. But none of these seem to affect the displayed name when transferred to my phone. What is the correct way to specify this?

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The app name is defined in the Android Manifest file, in particular this line:
application android:label="@string/app_name"

@string/app_name references the string-resource named “app_name”, which is defined in your projects mobile/res/values/strings.xml file:
string name=“app_name”>MyGame</string
(Sorry for the bad formatting, the forum doesn’t accept tags :/)

Changing that should work. Not sure if there is any way to do it through the jME SDK UI.

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@Sebioff said: The app name is defined in the Android Manifest file, in particular this line: application android:label="@string/app_name"

@string/app_name references the string-resource named “app_name”, which is defined in your projects mobile/res/values/strings.xml file:
string name=“app_name”>MyGame</string
(Sorry for the bad formatting, the forum doesn’t accept tags :/)

Changing that should work. Not sure if there is any way to do it through the jME SDK UI.

Hmm, the two manifest files I have in my projects only contains:

…/MANIFEST.MF

X-Comment: Created with jMonkeyPlatform

…/mobile/assets/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.3
Created-By: 1.6.0_26-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
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You should see it in the Project Explorer > Important Files > Android Manifest in the SDK. Otherwise you can find it under mobile/AndroidManifest.xml. Anyways, the proper way would be to change it in the string resource file, not in the manifest (as string resources can be localized).

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