What does the ${applicationName} in flutter AndroidManifest.xml means?

Question

The AndroidManifext.xml has this code:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.skeleton">
   <application
        android:label="skeleton"
        android:name="${applicationName}"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher">

On what real value the applicationName is interpolated?

Solution

This value is set by the Flutter Gradle plugin.

It can have 2 value :

If you have multidex enabled and your app has a minSdk less than 20, this value will be io.flutter.app.FlutterMultiDexApplication.

Else, it will be android.app.Application.

You can override this value by setting the base-application-name property (in the gradle.properties of your android folder for example).

Source : https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle#L261

Remember that you can always inspect the resulting APK (in build/app/outputs/flutter-apk) to see what value is in the final Manifest. Or you can just read the merged manifest in build/app/intermediates/merged_manifests/debug/AndroidManifest.xml.

Comments

[BambinoUA]

Well, I did search among all flutter project's files and didn't find any mention of applicationName. So what value is used for ${applicationName}?

[Sambhav Khandelwal]

try checking strings.xml

[BambinoUA]

No such file in project directory. No any mention of applicationName in project's files.

[Ivo]

@BambinoUA sorry, i missed that this was about a flutter project. My answer works for native Android projects. I don't know how it works for flutter. Maybe you can find something in the flutter documentation about that

[Ivo]

@BambinoUA see api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/LicensePage/…

[BambinoUA]

@IvoBeckers, this is wrong answer unfortunately. The quoted property contains the path to executable system/bin/app_process32 but manifest refer to class name because I can replace it with .MainApplication. So the applicationName use some other value.