I appreciate the reply, but forgive the relentless imprecision in my understanding.
Bottom line: can two different applications with two different package names have the same android:label in the manifest, say for a lite and a pro version of the same app? Where is android:label actually used? Is the name shown on the Market? The name shown in the app list on the device? Anywhere else? Thank you. On Mar 16, 7:54 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Keith Wiley <kbwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The reason it would be nice to leave it the same for both is that my > > understanding is, this is the string used for other apps to > > communicate to my app through intents. > > It's not; the label is just shown to the user. > > You could do things so that the manifest package name is used to communicate > with others, but that is really an implementation detail (especially since > you have to specify a concrete component name along with it), and so very > much not recommended. You would be best of using regular intent filters for > interacting with other applications. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
