My android app has a two word app name, and the 2nd word doesn't fit on the first line below the app icon. The OS doesn't automatically carry the 2nd word over to the 2nd line so it just gets cut off. I was able to use a "\n" as part of the app name string instead of a space, and that forced the 2nd word to display on the 2nd line. However, when I try to upload my app on the market I get an error (about the icon being improperly formatted, which really means that I have a newline in my app name, google needs to get their error messages straight but that's a different topic).
So, I've seen other apps on the market that don't have a problem showing the 2nd word in the app name on a second line. How do I do the same and get past the market upload?
Thanks.
From what I understand, this is a feature, not a bug. Only custom roms seem to allow more than one line for the names.
Even my application had two lines application name. Earlier the name was shown as only one line application name. I just uninstalled the application from device and re-installed it and my problem is solved.
May this helps someone.
\r\n worked for me, add it where you want to line break
I'd look at some projects that do not have the problem, see how they define things in their manifest and string resources, and try to match them. Barcode Scanner (ZXing) is one such app. This sample app from one of my books also successfully has its two-word name split over two lines.
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We've just released an app to the PlayStore, and this app name contains a hyphen, which makes it unfindable in the PlayStore unless I enclose the name with double-quotes.
As far as the package name goes, the hyphen is replaced with an underscore there to follow the docs' conventions, so no problems there...
Can I fix the findability while keeping the hyphen, or alternatively can I remove the hyphen and republish without causing trouble for users who've already downloaded the app with its current name.
First off, some general information about this can be found here
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9042516?hl=en
The title that is displayed in the playstore is just something you can change at any time through the developer console.
The actual title of the application can be changed in the AndroidManifest
<application
...
android:label="#string/app_name"
.../>
As long as you don't change the package name there should be no problem for current users.
Also, in my experience it takes quite some while before playstore search indexing is able to easily find your app with generic terms and strings. Brand new apps just have trouble showing up in general.
There is a reason why you can find WhatsApp with a completely misspelled word like: what-app. Basically the bigger you are, the more easily people can find you.
this might sound like a simple question, but I haven't been able to find a solution to this:
I created an app that I now want to publish, but while debugging, this app had an incorrect name.
Now, ofcourse I can change the namespace and / or label in my MainActivity, so that the app on my phone gets the right name assigned to - but if you check this app under "application" it still has its original name.
Is there anyway how I can change all of my Apps name in like "one click"? I did find a few instances, in which the "old" name still appeared, but changing one led to this app no longer debugging.
I'm using Visual Studio :)
THANKS!
You should change it in the AndroidManifest.xml
I'm trying to put the launcher icon of my app in the first position of applications menu.
Apparently Android uses the name to do an ascendent order but there are apps that break this rule.
Take a look at the print. The NQ Mobile Security is the first app in my screen but it starts with "N"
http://apps.movile.com.s3.amazonaws.com/test/Screenshot_2013-09-13-17-56-19.png
How can i do the same thing ?
Thanks a lot !!!
Put a space or two in the begining of your application name.
In that case, if Alphabetic order is selected, yours will be first.
My application name has 15 characters. But in apps list of android device does not shows the full name. So I want to set marquee for my lable in android manifest. But I dont know how even I didn't know wheather it is possible or not.
I was googling it near 4 hours but the solution is only for title of each activity and not for application name.
sample image for reference:
This is sample image taken from google. I could not take screenshot of my device.
Note the red marked name. I want this name to be scroll. If it is possible means please help me friends.
Thanks in advance.
You are not able to make the name scroll on the user's device, as this is (probably) a launcher feature. Unless the user's launcher is able to scroll long app names, it's not going to scroll. This is not something you can control through your app.
you cannot do that pro grammatically. Thats an default functionality of the every single OS manufactures . Its depend upon them only. Some manufactures will set marque and some of then wont set.
Marquee is not supported on all android mobile devices. Anyways check out this link you may be lucky ;)
When publishing the description of my app in Google Play, I'm having a hard time controlling whether blank lines appear between my paragraphs of text. The text I submit always contains blank lines between paragraphs, but some of them get dropped in the published version. I find that if I use a tag, I get two blank lines, which is not what I want, either.
Anybody figured this out?
I managed to stumble upon a solution through trial and error. What works for me is to separate paragraphs with a newline, a space, and another newline. In other words, a blank line between paragraphs that includes a space on that blank line.