How to change launcher icon and it's label from the application

Question

How can I change the launcher icon and its label from my application runtime in Android? (if it is possible)
I mean the properties defined in AndroidManifest.xml<

Answer 1

Edit: your original answer didn't specify you wanted to do it at runtime. Below the line is how to do it before it compiles. As for doing it programmatically at runtime:

From this answer:

You cannot change the manifest or the resource in the signed-and-sealed APK, except through a software upgrade.

But also, the accepted answer figured out a "hack" or some cheating way to do it (I presume). I haven't tested it, but there is a source for you to check out.

Or, this link apparently describes how to do this using the "widget" approach.

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So lets say your manifest was like this:

    

    

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You would change the launcher icon by putting images into your drawable folders:

Project folder --> res --> all the drawables

Then you would change the android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" to be android:icon="@drawable/whateverTheNameOfTheImageIsYouPutInTheDrawablesFolders"

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To change the label:

Open up your strings.xml file which is located:

Project folder --> res --> values --> strings.xml

And look for the string that looks like this:

Your App Name

And just change Your App Name to be whatever you want the label to be.

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Summary:

android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" determines your launcher icon, so just add images to the drawable folders and change ic_launcher to whatever the name of image is that you want to be the icon.

android:label="@string/app_name" determines your "label" so just look for app_name (because the label is referenced to @string/app_name) in your strings.xml file and change the contents of app_name.