3 Methods To Change Or Rename Android App Package Name in Android Studio

Sometimes, we make our app using the code from youtube tutorials and blogs and may forget to change the package name at the start. Yes, this happens, most of the time.

We don’t want to display other website name or Youtube channel name to be as our package name, We want a package name that defines us. If you are searching for a tutorial about how to change or rename the Android app package name in Android Studio, then this post is for you.

In this post, I am going to discuss 3 methods that I am using and still working.

• Method I – How to rename Android app package name in Android Studio
• Method II – How to change full package name of project by creating new package
• Method III – How to rename android app package name in Android Studio using existing package

Method I – How to rename android app package name in Android Studio

In this example, we will change package name com.androidride.myapplication” to “com.xyz.yourapplication”.

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STEP 1

• Open Android Studio project, Select package name or Java, Click the gear icon.

STEP 2

• Deselect Hide Empty Middle Packages. This breaks your folder structure into parts.

• The package is brocken down.

STEP 3

• Right Click on AndroidRide, Refactor -> Rename . You can also use Shift + F6.

A warning will appear.

STEP 4

• Click on Rename package

STEP 5

• Clear AndroidRide and put new Name in it. Here “xyz”
  

  STEP 6

  

  • Click Do Refactor

  STEP 7

  

  • Repeat the same process.
  • Right click on myapplication,Refactor -> Rename and Rename package.

  STEP 8

  

  • Change myapplication to yourapplication

  STEP 9

  

  • Click on Do Refactor.

  STEP 10

  

  • After changing the package name, open build.gradle(module) and change Application Id

  STEP 11

  

  • change applicationid “com.androidride.myapplication” to “com.xyz.yourapplication”.
  • After changing applicationid, click on sync now.

  Congrats. Package name successfully changed.

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  Method 2 – How to change full package name of project by creating new package

  In this method, We are going to change package name “com.androidride.myapplication” to “info.xyz.yourapplication”
  

  STEP 1

  

  • Right click on com.androidride.myapplication package and select Refactor->Move

  STEP 2

  

  • Choose Move package “com.androidride.myapplication” to another package and click on OK.

  STEP 3

  
  Now you will get a warning dialog shows Multiple directories correspond to package com.androidride.myapplication

  • Click on Yes

  STEP 4

  

  • Enter the new package name except the last level, For example. If you want to make package name as “info.xyz.yourapplication” then type “info.xyz” only, like above. Avoid the last part, here “yourapplication”.
    

    STEP 5

    

    • Click YES for creating new package.

    STEP 6

    

    • Click on Do Refactor. Now package name “com.androidride.myapplication” changes into “info.xyz.myapplication“.

    STEP 7

    

    Now we have to change the last package level name,

    • Right click on package name -> Refactor -> Rename

    STEP 8

    

    • Click on Rename package

    STEP 9

    

    • Rename “myapplication” in to “yourapplication”.
      

      STEP 10

      

      • Click on “Do Refactor”

      STEP 11

      

      • Use CTRL key and select each package related to old package name and delete. You can use DELETE key in keyboard or right click after selecting old packages and click on delete option from the menu.

      STEP 12

      

      • Open build.gradle file, change applicationId and Click on sync now.

      Package name successfully changed to “info.xyz.yourapplication“.

      Method III – How to rename android app package name in Android Studio using existing package

      This method is also same as the second method. Just like second, we change package name “com.androidride.myapplication” to “info.xyz.yourapplication“.

      STEP 1

      

      • Right click on Java and select New -> Package
        

        STEP 2

        

        • Next dialog box appears, choose …app\src\main\java as Destination Directory.

        STEP 3

        

        • Enter your package name, here info.xyz.yourapplication

        STEP 4

        

        • Now move old package files into new package. Here move files from “com.androidride.myapplication” to “info.xyz.yourapplication“. Just use CTRL key to select all files and drag it to new package.

        

        • Files moved.

        STEP 5

        

        • Open AndroidManifest.xml and change package name into “info.xyz.yourapplication“

        .

        STEP 6

        

        • Open build.gradle (Module: app) file, change applicationId also. Change it to “info.xyz.yourapplication” and Click on Sync now.Now you might get errors. It is due to the R file import. There are two scenarios, we can do.
          1. Remove R file import line from both files and check the error still exists. If not then you can delete old package files now

          It’s done. You have successfully changed the package name.

          2. Otherwise, If the error still exists, do the below steps.

          STEP 7

          

          • Select R file import line just like above and press CTRL + SHIFT + R . Replace with new package name. Click on replace all.

          STEP 8

          

          • Click on replace

          STEP 9

          

          • Delete old package and related files

          STEP 10

          

          • Build->Rebuild

          Yes, the package name is changed.

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