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I have an Android app with a pretty long name. This name is ‘compacted’ when presented under the app icon in the launcher (tested on 2.2 up to 4.0). That’s both ugly and stupid (you can’t see the actual app name).
I would like to change this icon label without affecting the name that can be seen in the App Manager. Is this possible?
Sure. The caption of your launcher icon is driven by the
android:labelattribute of whatever<activity>has the magic<intent-filter>to appear in theLAUNCHER. By default, that is set up to be the same string resource (@string/app_name) as is used for the<application>android:label, but you can have your<activity>point to a different string resource.