Define user friendly names for Android Apps

[alexballas]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe:

When building an android app with fyne, you need to specify an -appID. This appID is then used as the display name in the Application Info in Android and also the recent apps menus.

Is it possible to construct a solution with the existing API?

No

Describe the solution you'd like to see:

Ability to provide more user friendly names for the Android apps and not use names in the form of "org.something.something"

[andydotxyz]

Hmm, this did not occur to me at the time for some reason - but did you try passing the -name parameter to go package?

[alexballas]

Hello, yes, same issue

[andydotxyz]

Can you please check the content of the AndroidManifest.xml that is embedded in your .apk file generated when using -name parameter? (you'll need to decode it from binary form - https://lynxbee.com/how-to-decode-binary-android-manifest-xml-to-human-readable-text-androidmanifest-xml/)

Specifically looking for lines that contain android:label.
Make sure you are checking the correct output file as well, because using the name specifier will change the file name.

[alexballas]

$ fyne package -os android -name Go2TV -appID com.alexballas.go2tv -icon ../../assets/go2tv-icon.png
github.com/alexballas/go2tv/cmd/go2tv does not import "github.com/fyne-io/mobile/app"

$ unzip Go2TV.apk -d output
Archive:  Go2TV.apk
 extracting: output/classes.dex      
 extracting: output/lib/armeabi-v7a/libGo2TV.so  
 extracting: output/lib/arm64-v8a/libGo2TV.so  
 extracting: output/lib/x86/libGo2TV.so  
 extracting: output/lib/x86_64/libGo2TV.so  
 extracting: output/res/mipmap-xxxhdpi-v4/icon.png  
 extracting: output/resources.arsc   
 extracting: output/AndroidManifest.xml  
 extracting: output/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF  
 extracting: output/META-INF/CERT.SF  
 extracting: output/META-INF/CERT.RSA  

 
$ java -jar AXMLPrinter2.jar output/AndroidManifest.xml | grep android:label
		android:label="Go2TV"
			android:label="Go2TV"

The name in the app list appears correctly as "Go2TV". It's the "recent apps" and "app info" that shows org.alexballas.go2tv (same wihout the -name flag)

[andydotxyz]

OK, thank you for all the confirmations, good to check.

[andydotxyz]

Fixed on `release/v2.1.x'.
If you install the 'fyne' tool from there you will get pretty names appearing as expected.