Updating capacitor project name

[mhartington]

From slack

Using Capacitor, how do I change the name of my project with out getting error App.xcodeproject does not exist?

[mhartington]

When adding capacitor to a project, you can change the name by setting the appName key in the capacitor.config.json

{
  "appId": "io.ionic.starter",
  "appName": "MyApp",
  "bundledWebRuntime": false,
  "npmClient": "npm",
  "webDir": "www",
  "plugins": {
    "SplashScreen": {
      "launchShowDuration": 0
    }
  },
  "cordova": {}
}

When you create the iOS project, this will update the setting in xcode

SO while project and target say “App”

Those aren’t really relevant here. When we build and deploy to a device, we’ll have the “MyApp” name being used.