Nov 04
Jeff LaMarche has a post on how to change the name of an application as it appears on the iPhone’s home screen.
Here’s an alternative way to do it using the localization features of OS X:
- Create an en.lproj directory if your project doesn’t already have one.
- Inside the en.lproj directory create a file called InfoPlist.strings.
- Add this line to the file: ”CFBundleDisplayName” = “YourNewAppName”;
January 27th, 2009 at 18:37
[...] The iPhone Development Blog lists the steps for creating an English localization file: Changing Application Name | iPhone Development Blog More on localized resources: Bundle Programming Guide: Anatomy of a Modern Bundle Of course, the [...]
March 2nd, 2009 at 17:21
I also wrote a short tip on how to test various names on the home screen that developers might find handy.
http://iphonedevelopertips.com/xcode/testing-application-names-on-home-screen.html
John
March 3rd, 2009 at 03:13
@John: That is a clever tip! Thanks.
October 11th, 2009 at 20:10
Nice tip, I had been republishing app to achieve this.
March 28th, 2010 at 14:59
Many thanks for this very useful tip. With only 1 year of Mac experience, I struggled a bit with applying it, so I’ve added 2 couple of pointers here for others with limited Mac experience …
Firstly, I needed to remove the “Bundle Display Name” entry from my project Info.plist
Secondly, I added “Application has localized display name” property to the project info.plist. This is a boolean which is NO by default, so set it to YES
Thanks again