diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 68e8dc1ba..fcba32400 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 - Make play-services optional (https://github.com/rebeccahughes/react-native-device-info/pull/226)
 - Critical fix on WIFI STATE (https://github.com/rebeccahughes/react-native-device-info/pull/249)
 - Added `getTotalMemory` and `getMaxMemory` (https://github.com/rebeccahughes/react-native-device-info/pull/289)
-- Introduced `getApplicationName` to see the name of the app both on ios, android and win (https://github.com/rebeccahughes/react-native-device-info/pull/210)
+- Introduced `getApplicationName` to see the name of the app both on ios, android and win
+  - https://github.com/rebeccahughes/react-native-device-info/pull/210
+  - https://github.com/rebeccahughes/react-native-device-info/pull/295
 
 ### 0.12.0
 
diff --git a/android/src/main/java/com/learnium/RNDeviceInfo/RNDeviceModule.java b/android/src/main/java/com/learnium/RNDeviceInfo/RNDeviceModule.java
index c1f6271f6..b3e9e3425 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/com/learnium/RNDeviceInfo/RNDeviceModule.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/com/learnium/RNDeviceInfo/RNDeviceModule.java
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ public String getCarrier() {
 
     PackageManager packageManager = this.reactContext.getPackageManager();
     String packageName = this.reactContext.getPackageName();
-    String applicationName = this.reactContext.getApplicationInfo().loadLabel(this.reactContext.getPackageManager()).toString();
     
     constants.put("appVersion", "not available");
     constants.put("appName", "not available");
@@ -136,11 +135,12 @@ public String getCarrier() {
     try {
       PackageInfo packageInfo = packageManager.getPackageInfo(packageName, 0);
       PackageInfo info = packageManager.getPackageInfo(packageName, 0);
+      String applicationName = this.reactContext.getApplicationInfo().loadLabel(this.reactContext.getPackageManager()).toString();
       constants.put("appVersion", info.versionName);
       constants.put("buildNumber", info.versionCode);
       constants.put("firstInstallTime", info.firstInstallTime);
       constants.put("lastUpdateTime", info.lastUpdateTime);
-      constants.put("appName", packageManager.getApplicationLabel(applicationInfo).toString());
+      constants.put("appName", applicationName);
     } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
     }