Question

I was working on my application for android. And as I started it just now i gave the version as Version 0.01. and hard coded it in string.xml which is used in linear layout.

Now my question is: do android provide some method so that instead of hard coding the version no., android provide this. And when I want to update the version it is easily updated. If android does not provide such thing , is there some way through which I save myself from hard coding it.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can enter the app version number in the android manifest file.

If you want to access the version from inside the code use the following code

getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0).versionName

To add version number into the manifest use the following

manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.abc.app"
android:versionCode="6"
android:versionName="1.3.1 "