Quick question about App Names

quantumsheep

Hi all,
Just a quick question about app names.

I want my 'arty' app, 'Unbearably Wonderful' to be seen like that in iTunes.

However, I'd like to shorten the actual app name on a device to 'Wonderful'

Any ideas on how this works?

Cheers in advance,

QS

beaudoin_n

Oh... good question !!

Isn't it the long name is what you submit to iTunesConnect and the name they see under the icon is the .app filename ??

quantumsheep

Heh - I don't know - that's why I'm askin'

jonmulcahy

when you build the app, just put the name as wonderful, that's what shows up on the iDevice. You can name it differently in the App Store. Wolfenstein does this, Wolf3D on the phone, so doesn't Civilization Revolution (Civ Rev).

I'm going to be doing it with my next update for all my games. Z is for Zombie will just show up as Zombie, V is for Vortex is gonna show up as Vortex.

quantumsheep

Thanks mate - App submitted!
Now for bed methinks!

QS

quantumsheep

Actually, that didn't work

The name on the device is still 'unbearably wonderful' instead of just 'wonderful'

quantumsheep

I think it took about 3 or 4 days, mate.

BeyondtheTech

Apple really needs to do something about this, I hate seeing things like "Sh....it" on my iPhone.

Eastbound

If xCode weren't removed from the process, there is a very easy way to change the display name on the device to be whatever you wish. This feature must be on the to do list, though.

iDeveloperz

Yeh it would be good if you could build it as a file do drag and drop into xCode so you can add even more features. Like online web score etc.

MarkOnTheIron

With my last GS app "Musician's Little Helper" when I published with GS in the name field I wrote "Musician's LH" and that is what appear on the device.

The AppStore name is whatever you want and you can change it with itunesconnect

scitunes

How many letters do you get?