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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:32:26+00:00

For development & debug purposes, I would like to have the label under the

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For development & debug purposes, I would like to have the label under the icon contain a timestamp that hints when this particular instance was built.

The entry that’s responsible for this label is android:label="@string/app_name" under the main activity.

The problem is that @string/app_name is hard-coded.

Is is possible at all to accomplish a build timestamped label as I described above?

I don’t mind setting it in onCreate() (i.e. will change after the 1st run), as long as it indeed changes the label under the icon (not in the title bar).

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you should do is include a step in your build process that always modifies the app_name xml value to include the time stamp. This can be done with Ant using an XML Mainpulation Task to replace xml value.

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