Creating several Android radio streaming Apps with Eclipse but can install only 1

Question

I am starting doing my first steps in the Android Apps development and I hope to get some guidance from some experts.

I have installed Eclipse successfully and created an App that is merely streaming one shoutcast radio station.

The big issues started in the moment I wanted to create the second Radio App to play a second different radio station. The second App is somehow identical to the first, with only change being that it points to a different shoutcast http link...and it has also some different icons/logo.

I had many problems understanding how to duplicate the Radio App with Eclipse and be allowed to save it. Anyway now I believe this is solved but the copy and paste job is probably what has originated a second problem.

== The issue: Now, after having completed the Second "Radio App", my Sony smartphone asks me if I want to UPDATE the First Radio App I successfully installed, rather than letting me install the second.

So, obviously even if I changed the name of the App in many lines, there must be something that makes my phone see the second App as a duplicate and a potential update to the first radio app. In fact it is a second and different App and I need to install both of them and even a third App for a third radio station!

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

In your app manifest tag, there is a package attribute. This value is your app's unique identifier. If it is the same, it is treated as the same app.

See: manifest

Answer 2

In Eclipse (latest current version), right click on the project from "Package Explorer" (left side of the panel), from the opening menu' select "Android Tools" and select "Rename Application Package". You will be asked for the new package name. You can't change the "structure" of it.

Eclipse will warn/inform you about the change that is going to apply.

Eclipse will change the name of the package everywhere is needed, accordingly. Doing the same manually, most likely you will face ugly results and spend more time.