Renaming a file and changing its icon is a child’s play on Windows and other such operating systems meant for a personal computer. However, have you ever thought about renaming and changing the icon of the applications installed on your Android? Might be fun, right?
The package name is a unique name to identify a specific app. It is very common we need to change the package name. Here i am going to show two ways to rename package in android app. The package name is a unique name to identify a specific app. It is very common we need to change the package name. Here i am going to show two ways to rename package in android app. Usually package name in Android Studio resembles something like this - com.vishal.someapp. There are different ways to rename package name for your app in Android Studio. It depends on which part of the package name you want to rename. If you just want to rename the last part, (i.e someapp in the example above), it is relatively easier. Download Package Name Viewer 2.0 apk 3.0.2129 for Android. This app show you package name and launcher class of all apps in your device.
Well, I thought about it one day and then started researching on how it can be done. As of now, there doesn’t appear to be an app on the Play Store which can rename an installed app, not even for a rooted device. But then I came across a tool for Windows called APK Editor on XDA Forum.
Using APK Editor once can easily rename an Android application and change its default icon even for a non-rooted android phone. So let’s see how it’s done.
Rename and Change Android Apps Icon
Step 1: First of all, we will need the APK package of the app you want to rename and change the icon for. If you don’t have the APK with you, but the app is installed on your phone, you can easily compile its APK using the Astro file manager. We have already discussed how you can make APK files of the installed apps while talking about transferring the installed apps from one device to another over Bluetooth.
Step 2: Download and extract APK Edit v0.4 to a folder in your computer. As APK Edit v0.4 needs Java to work, please install it if you don’t already have it.
Step 3: Now that you have both – the APK file and the APK editor – let’s start with the editing. Launch APK Edit.exe that you extracted in the previous step and load the APK file you want to edit.
Step 4: The tool will now read the file and display the app icon and name under the General tab. You can edit the name text field directly and click on the icon image to search for a new icon. Please make sure that the icon file is in PNG format and is a perfect square in dimensions.
Step 5: After you are done with the editing, click on the Apply button to save the changes.
Although the app gives you an option to directly push the apps to the device using a data cable, I would suggest you to transfer the modified APK file to your internal hard disk using Wi-Fi or data cable and then install it on the device.
Even while installing the file you will see the changes in the file name and the app icon. After the app’s installed, you will see the app with the user defined icon and name.
How To Change The Package Name Of Android App Download
Conclusion
You can use this trick to mask your secure applications on android. But do remember that the trick is only meant for personal use. Don’t try to change the name and icon of the app and publish it as your own work.
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Have you ever caught in a situation where you have given some funny or irrelevant package name for client’s Android app and the app is already published on Google Play store? The package name is your App’s unique identity on Google Play Store. All future versions of the App need to have same package name in order to manage updates. App with a different package name can only be published as a different app with different name on the Play Store.
The package name is normally not exposed to end users but when you want to share direct link of your app on play store with end users via your website or social media, the package name gets exposed since the direct link on Play Store contains the package name. Last part of the URL after equal to sign (com.cakerstreet.cst.app) is the package name. If you have already submitted the app and you figure out that package name is not relevant or client insists on changing the package name, you have following options-
- Upload new apk with correct package name and new app name (This is not recommended since users would continue to download the App with incorrect package name while you would be providing no future updates for that package name).
- Unpublish already published app and upload new apk with correct package name (recommended). In this case you would need to rename old unpublished app to something else so that new apk can have same name (the name you want for your published app). Play store doesn’t allow two apps to have same name even when they have different package name.
We faced this issue recently when a mobile app client requested to change the package name at a time when Hybrid Mobile Application we’ve developed was already live on the Play Store. Thankfully there weren’t any installs and we were quick to make the changes to the package name and publish a new app with the right package name.