How to package and send an android app - android

I have used Android Studio to build my Android App. I have found numerous tutorials for generating the apk file, but now that I have done that how do I send my app to somebody? The apk file is called app-release.apk. It doesn't even show the name of my app. Can I change the name? Can I package it somehow and add an image?


The APK is the file that you use to install an app in some Android device. If you have an APK file, it is already packaged, just send it to your friend.
And yes, you can change the file name, but that will not have any kind of effect on the app, it is just changing the file name...


What do you mean by package it??
You can surely change the name by RENAMING it . And as for the icon you can add an image to the drawable folder and then set the icon for it.
The icon can be set in the ActivityManifest file. Here is how to do it--
In the android manifest file there is a android:icon just set the location of your image .
https://i.stack.imgur.com/1x30x.png


The name of the application is stored in your AndroidManifest.xml file
<application
android:label="NAME OF APPLICATION"
You can rename the .APK file to anything you like, it does not change the name of the application.
The APK file can be sent to others for installation.


The apk file is only recognized on an android system. Any other system (Windows for example) wouldn't bother trying to show the app's icon even if you set it properly in the manifest. As for renaming it, you can rename it to whatever you want as long as you keep the apk extension. The real app name that will show when installed is set in your manifest file. And packaging it? you already done that by generating the apk! However if the person receiving your app wants to install it, it has to enable "Unknown sources" in Setting > Security > Unknown sources as your application is not coming from the play store.

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I'm installing my project apk file on device and I can view all its database inside
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data/data/myapp
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The AndroidManifest.xml gets bundled by AAPT into the .apk file. It is not stored by itself on the file system.
For more information please look at how Building and Running is performed.

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I am trying to load an app to the Android Market. Below are the instructions I am using from the following website to prepare my application for submission:
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You can add a manifest file to your project by bringing up the property pages for your project, going to the Android Manifest tab, and doing the 'add AndroidManifest.xml' link.
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I had the same issue and it had nothing to do with the icon. I had an application class (GlobalVars extends Applications) and this was defined in the manifest as different: <application android:name=".GlobalVars" /> I deleted this and added android:name="com.example.myapp.GlobalVars" to the application declaration.
If it is the icon you may have drawable-hdpi, -ldpi, -mdpi folders, and no drawable folder. Or have a drawable folder but the icon is not in it.

Can you post the relevant snippet from your AndroidManifest.xml file? Whatever you have as the android:icon attribute ("#drawable/icon" in the example) is what the apk will be looking for. You can set this manually in the xml file, or by using the wizard in the ADT plugin for Eclipse. If this is set correctly, this means you should have a file called icon.png in one of your drawable folders. If you don't have an icon.png, can you post your folder structure?
In an app I've uploaded to the market, I have the same attribute - #drawable/icon - in my manifest, and therefore I am required to have a file called icon.png in my project. In my case, I have three different icon.png files in my various density-based drawable folders (res/drawable-hdpi, res/drawable-mdpi, res/drawable-ldpi). In your case, you need to at least have res/drawable/icon.png.

This error can also be generated if the manifest xml includes more than one < application > node.

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