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AndroidManifest – application name and icon

Until now, in our tests, when we launch the application, you can see the app icon is a Flutter logo. For release, we need to swap it with our awesome unique icon to make sure our users distinguish our app among millions.

The icon and name are defined in the manifest application tag. By default, the icon refers to the default Flutter icon, as you can see:

<manifest ...>    ...    <application        android:name="io.flutter.app.FlutterApplication"        android:label="Hands On: Favors app"        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher">    ....</manifest>

So, we make two changes in this tag:

• We change the label value to the final name of our app, the name by which our users will recognize our app.
• We can also switch the app icon ...