App Inventor: Change your Package name and submit it on google play.

Here you will learn to “hack” and change your package name of your apk.

App Inventor

You should check from my app inventor tutorial here.

Change Package Name

• First, you should know that the package name of the app created with AppInventor is like appinventor.ai_youremail.appname.

• So, If we want change our appinventor.ai_felipe_moreno_v.rgobeApp package name to com.rolnomev.rgobe, we must follow this steps.

  • Download apkTool from this repository apktool for linux or follow the respective steps for others Operating Systems here.

  • Once download (I downloaded apktool_2.3.1.jar version), you can use it.

• Then, Build your apk project from AppInventor. My apk is named rgobeApp.apk.

  • Then, I uncompress my apk file writing this:

    java -jar apktool_2.3.1.jar d rgobeApp.apk
    

    

    This command generates a file directory with name rgobeApp of our android project like:

    

  • Next, modify AndroidManifest.xml and other files in project, I used Gedit:

    

    Also, you must change files in /smali/appinventor/ai_felipe_moreno_v/rgobeApp/ (in this case).
    Modify in these file the regular text from Lappinventor/ai_felipe_moreno_v/rgobeApp/ to Lcom/rolnomev/rgobe in all files of that directory path.

• Next, create directories path as your new package name like: /smali/com/rolnomev/rgobe.

• Next, copy files from /smali/appinventor/ai_felipe_moreno_v/rgobeApp to new dir /smali/com/rolnomev/rgobe.

• Once your finish to replace all coincidences, yo should to rebuild the apk, writing this:

   java -jar apktool_2.3.1.jar b rgobeApp
  

  

• Now, you can install your apk in your mobile phone and enjoy your app with new package name.

Notes

• You can upload your apk in google play with your new package name, instead the package name that appinventor gives you by default.

• Maybe this method will be deprecated as time passes.