Android: programmatically change the application label?

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It doesn't seem possible, but I was hoping someone may be aware of a way. Can the label of the application (the one defined in the manifest file by android:label="@string/app_name") be set from code?

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '12 at 17:44

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That is read-only, AFAIK.

If your objective is to change the title bar of your activities, you can call setTitle().

answered Jan 24 '12 at 17:44

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Possibly there is a way to modify the value of a string resource from code? – ab11 Jan 24 '12 at 17:56
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@ab11: That's *definitely* not possible. – CommonsWare Jan 24 '12 at 18:01
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it works... to be more precise, use `getActionBar().setTitle("bla bla bla");` – Ricardo Appleton Aug 06 '14 at 20:53
@RicardoAppleton: The OP is specifically *not* referring to the action bar, but rather other uses of that string resource. – CommonsWare Aug 06 '14 at 21:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '16 at 21:32

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I mostly use this to change actionBar's text pragmatically in onCreate() method....very easy!

getSupportActionBar().setTitle("yourString");

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '19 at 10:23

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I used:

this.setTitle("YourString");

answered Jan 27 '19 at 10:23

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Android: programmatically change the application label?

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