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Ryan Beesley  
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 More options Dec 13 2009, 3:49 pm
From: Ryan Beesley <Ryan.Bees...@swypeinc.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:49:01 -0600
Local: Sun, Dec 13 2009 3:49 pm
Subject: RE: [android-developers] application name change
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I've seen other apps do this before, so I don't think it would be a problem... but if someone searches for your app by name that could be a problem.  If this is a paid app, the following won't be all that useful, but if not you could possibly leave a tombstone that points to your new app temporarily; in effect another app that does a market search for the new one. At least this way if someone is searching for the old app they will find a pointer to the new one.

This makes upgrade scenarios a little ugly, but it may help you retain users.

/Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Jeffe
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:32 AM
To: Android Developers
Subject: [android-developers] application name change

We're having to change our app's name due to it being somewhat close
to a mark owned by a large company that believes consumers are easily
confused.  I had been assuming that this was simply a matter of
changing the name listed in our Market description when we publish an
update, but has anyone done this before?  I don't want any nasty
surprises, like the Market preventing a display name change on an
existing app.

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