Why is my APK name generic?

Question

I\'m sure this is the dumb question of the day, but here it goes... I have an app that I need to distribute \"in house\" to be used by sales at a trade show. I successfull

Answer 1

May be it is too late to answer but i was having same problem to show my app name with the apk generated. i just update the defaultConfig in build.gradle(Module:app) as following

defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.test.testapp"
        minSdkVersion 19
        targetSdkVersion 26
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        setProperty("archivesBaseName", "TestApp")
    }

This works by modifying the archivesBaseName property and works for Gradle Version >= 2.0, last tested with gradle-3.3-all. Output would be TestApp-debug.apk instead of app-debug.apk

Answer 2

Yes, it uses the folder name of your application's module. If you rename the folder, you also need to update your settings.gradle file with the updated name; the refactoring doesn't automatically change it there.

After you change settings.gradle, make sure you re-sync your project with the Gradle files. It should put a banner at the top of your editor windows reminding you that you need to do it; if you don't, then click the button in the toolbar.