I´ve finished my quiz app a few days ago. Now, I want to publish a second quiz with different questions. I copied the project in Eclipse and changed the questions. Now, when install it on my smartphone, it tells me that this app is already there. So where can I change the name that the two apps are different? Or do I have to change something else?
asked Feb 1, 2013 at 10:11 user896692 user896692 2,371 7 7 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 57 57 bronze badgesYou need to change the package name:
Right click on the project -> Android Tools -> Rename Application package
answered Feb 1, 2013 at 10:13
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just refactoring the package names doesn't work so I came here. This method works just dandy.
Commented Aug 27, 2013 at 2:47
If you haven't done it yet. you need to change the package name like above but go into strings.xml and modify "
When you are testing, you can make do with uninstalling one and installing the other. However, if you intend to release two applications (or any number of applications) on Google Play, you should always have different package names for each.
The way the Google Play mechanism works is that different applications can have the same name. They are however, differentiated with their package names. No two applications on the Google Play store can share the same package names.
Here is a nice article titled, Things That Cannot Change by Dianne Hackborn.
Of course, use this (as already answered by Nunu), to change the Package name of your second application: Right click on the project -> Android Tools -> Rename Application package