Renaming an App

Question

I wonder if somewhere there is a list of things that have to be done to rename an app?
I have to rename my app from it's development name to its publishable name and having done all I thought I needed to do (namespaces, global search and replace), the newly named app crashes at several points. My app is being developed using Xamarin in Visual Studio 2019 for iOS and Android.
Can anyone list the steps or point me to an online tutorial?

Answer 1

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if somewhere there is a list of things that have to be done to rename an app

On Android, you could change the application name via the android:label project of the <application> tag in AndroidManifest.xml. If you've set label for MainActivity class, please remove it. Clean the soultion and close the VS. Then open the VS and deploy the project. If you test this function in debug mode and you've deploy the project on the test device, please clear the data and uninstall the application.

AndroidManifest.xml

   <manifest ...>  
     <application android:label="@string/app_name" ...>  
     </application>  
   </manifest>  

strings.xml

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>  
   <resources>  
     <string name="app_name">AndroidTestApplication</string>  
   </resources>  

On iOS, please open Info.plist file to specify a value to the Application Name option.

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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