# Capacitor app crash on start

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/capacitor-app-crash-on-start/238948>\
**Category:** Ionic Framework\
**Created:** [January 9, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/capacitor-app-crash-on-start/238948 "2024-01-09T12:07:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/capacitor-app-crash-on-start/238948/2 "2024-01-09T15:53:59Z")

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Check this post to make sure you got everything when renaming your project. It kinda looks like you didn’t rename the folder structure.

Does it run fine in the Android Emulator?

> [@Change application name on android platform](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/change-application-name-on-android-platform/220594/2):
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> These are the other places: applicationId in android/app/build.gradle android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml If you want to update the package name to match, then you need to update the following items. For the example our new package is com.awesome.app android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml manifest -\> package manifest -\> application -\> activity -\> android:name \<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?\> \<manifest package="com.awesome.app" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/ap…

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