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Display A Meaningful Name Under Your App Icon

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Recently I’ve been seeing many apps where the name of the app that appears under the app icon is truncated. Before I even launch the app, I know that the developer doesn’t care about the appearance of their app. Sad.

The solution is trivial.

The 5 second alternative is to edit the project’s Info.plist file. Change the value of Bundle Display Name from ${PRODUCT_NAME} to the name of your app.

The 60 second option is to create an InfoPlist.strings file in each of your language directories (e.g. en.lproj). Add this line to the file: ”CFBundleDisplayName” = “YourNewAppName”;

The benefit of the latter approach is that you can specify localized names for your app. You are translating your apps to other languages than English, right?

written by Nick

One Response to “Display A Meaningful Name Under Your App Icon”

  1. Changing the name under an iPhone app « Ramblings Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 10:31

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