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    <p>This question has been asked before - but with no satisfying answer at all! So I'm trying it again.</p> <p>I want to give my application launcher icon (the one that is displayed on the startscreen!) a different, shorter caption. It seems the launcher takes its label from the mainfest section about the main activity's label, as here:</p> <pre><code>&lt;activity android:name="MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_short_name"&gt; &lt;intent-filter&gt; &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt; &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt; &lt;/intent-filter&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <p>I already changed the original reference to my app's name @string/app_name to a different, shorter string resource here.</p> <p>BUT - big <strong>BUT</strong>: this also of course changes this activity's default title! And I did not want that to happen, there's enough space for a long application name! Setting the long title again in <code>onCreate</code> using the <code>setTitle(int)</code> method does no good either, because the short name will be visible to the user for a short time, but long enough to notice!</p> <p>And - please don't answer my question by refering to a custom titlebar... I do not want to go that long way, just because of a stupid string title! It's a pain to draw a custom title bar for so little effect!</p> <p>Is there <strong>no easy way</strong> to just give the launcher a different string to display? Thanks for your answers!</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> One more reason why having a custom titlebar is a pain is that it will not look like the default titlebar, I would have to explicitly do things to make it look alike on each device! And that can't be a solution if, after all, I don't want a different appearance!</p>
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