How to get the name of the running application in iOS

Question

If the application name under the icon on the home screen is \"My Awesome App\" how do you get that string within the application at runtime?

Answer 1

Swift 3, 4, & 5

let appName = Bundle.main.infoDictionary?["CFBundleName"] as? String

Answer 2

[[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleName"];

Answer 3

#include <stdlib.h>

// work for iOS and MacOSX and ~23 times faster than get name from bundle
NSString *app = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:getprogname()];

Answer 4

Swift 3 & 4

Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleName") as? String ?? ""
Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleDisplayName") as? String ?? ""

Swift 2.2

NSBundle.mainBundle().objectForInfoDictionaryKey("CFBundleName")
NSBundle.mainBundle().objectForInfoDictionaryKey("CFBundleDisplayName")

More about 'CFBundleName' and 'CFBundleDisplayName'

The following is from Apple's documentation on Core Foundation Keys

CFBundleName, “Bundle name”, The short name of the bundle; not intended to be seen by the user. See CFBundleName for details. (Recommended, Localizable)

CFBundleDisplayName, “Bundle display name”, The user-visible name of the bundle; used by Siri and visible on the Home screen in iOS. See CFBundleDisplayName for details. (Required, Localizable)

Answer 5

Attention:

If you do a localizations in your app, you should use the blew code to get the true localized display name:

Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleName") as? String ?? ""
Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: "CFBundleDisplayName") as? String ?? ""

rather than:

Bundle.main.object(forInfoDictionaryKey: kCFBundleNameKey as String) as? String

Answer 6

For Xamarin.iOS use:

return ((NSString)NSBundle.MainBundle.InfoDictionary["CFBundleName"]).ToString();