Yes you can't, this is a security feature to help the user if apps are
trying to spoof other apps.  You should give the activity that is handling
this Intent a more descriptive label so the user better knows what it does.

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Justin Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:

> AFAIK you can't...
>
> Thanks,
> Justin Anderson
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>
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Kacee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I have a viewer app. There are other apps installed on my device as
>> well doing same job. So when i open a document, android as usual shows
>> a list of apps that can do that job (which is file open here).
>>
>> In my app, along with App name, just beneath it, package name gets
>> displayed. I want to set App description instead of package name. I
>> tried with
>>  <application android:description="@string/app_description">
>>
>> its not working. Where to set this custom string ?
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