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Changing Application Name

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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:

  1. Create an en.lproj directory if your project doesn’t already have one. 
  2. Inside the en.lproj directory create a file called InfoPlist.strings.
  3. Add this line to the file: “CFBundleDisplayName” = “YourNewAppName”;

 

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7 Responses to “Changing Application Name”

  1. Display Name? - iPhone Dev SDK Forum Says:
    January 27th, 2009 at 18:37

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  2. John Muchow Says:
    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

  3. Nick Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 03:13

    @John: That is a clever tip! Thanks.

  4. Neill Says:
    October 11th, 2009 at 20:10

    Nice tip, I had been republishing app to achieve this.

  5. Penguino Says:
    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

  6. song soknay Says:
    May 20th, 2011 at 13:49

    i want to put application name more than 13 character .Ex : Testing Applicationname.
    I changed : Bundle Display Name : Testing Applicationname , but when I run
    application it display appplication name : Testing…name . what can i confic to
    display full application name . ex :Testing Applicationname

  7. Nick Says:
    May 20th, 2011 at 20:02

    @song: Unfortunately there is no way to change the amount of text that fits underneath an app icon. Your only option is to come up with a shorter name. Note that the name shown under the app icon does not have to be identical to the name shown in the App Store.

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