Ability to change the app name

[chernodub]

Would be amazing if we could also set the application name in config.yml file

[chernodub]

Currently, we're using this tooling along with Capacitor for configuring the apps for different environments. It feels that the feature would be very useful for this scenario.

p.s: I understand that for Capacitor, the app name is configured via capacitor.config.ts, and maybe this lies a bit outside of the trapeze scope. I would really appreciate it if you guys could share your perspective on that. Thanks! :)

[chernodub]

I figured that it is also achievable by replacing the native resource files directly:

vars:
  BUNDLE_ID:
    default: com.example.app
  PACKAGE_NAME:
    default: $BUNDLE_ID
+ APP_NAME:
+   default: test-app-name

platforms:
  ios:
    targets:
      App:
        bundleId: $BUNDLE_ID
+       plist:
+         - replace: true
+           entries:
+             - CFBundleDisplayName:
+                 $APP_NAME

  android:
      packageName: $BUNDLE_ID
+     xml:
+     - resFile: values/strings.xml
+       target: resources/string[@name="app_name"]
+       replace: |
+         <string name="app_name">$APP_NAME</string>
+     - resFile: values/strings.xml
+       target: resources/string[@name="title_activity_main"]
+       replace: |
+         <string name="title_activity_main">$APP_NAME</string>

But, probably, it would make sense to make it more human-readable by having some convenient property. Something like the following:

vars:
  BUNDLE_ID:
    default: com.example.app
  PACKAGE_NAME:
    default: $BUNDLE_ID
+ APP_NAME:
+   default: test-app-name

platforms:
  ios:
    targets:
      App:
        bundleId: $BUNDLE_ID
+       appName: $APP_NAME

  android:
      packageName: $BUNDLE_ID
+     appName: $APP_NAME

[mlynch]

For iOS there's displayName https://trapeze.dev/docs/configuration-tool#displayname this sets CFBundleDisplayName

However, for Android there's nothing built in but I think I can pretty easily add something that reads the <application android:label field and then resolves the right file or strings entry to modify. It's just a little more complicated

[mlynch]

Added android support in 6.0.3. Having issues building the docs at the moment but you can use the new appName command:

android:
  appName: My App Name

[mlynch]

https://trapeze.dev/docs/configuration-tool#appname

[chernodub]

Thank you @mlynch 🙏

[trinitiwowka]

@mlynch Hi! Can you help me please? I have a problem.

My application name consists only of numbers, I get a runtimeError when i build & run ios
I get
CFBundleDisplayName 1999

but need
CFBundleDisplayName 1999

When $APP_NAME = '1999'