Start an Android Wear app with a "Start ..." voice action different from the app's name

Question

I have an app with a difficult name that the system's built-in speech recognizer is not able to properly understand. For this reason, assuming that my app is called X, I would like to be able to launch it by saying "Start Y."

As described in the official documentation, the name of the app is defined in the manifest:

<application
    ...
    android:label="X" > ... </application>

while the text to say after the "Start" command is defined here:

<activity
    ...
    android:label="Y" > ... </activity>

However in doing so the name of the app in the app list becomes Y, while I would like it to remain X...

Answer 1

The only thing you can do is to use an activity alias with a different label. In this case the user will see two icons in the list.