Question

I’m planning to build an automated system for deploying an Android build to various devices, in order to make development for multiple platforms a bit more comfortable. Is there a way to get the sdk version of a connected device through android shell or adb?

There will be a computer to which several test devices is connected, and I was planning to write a script which will fetch the correct build for each of those from a build-server, install the different apks on their respective devices, launch them and collect log info, to be made available through some other program whose specifications are beside the point.

The point is that I need to know the sdk version each device is running to install the correct apk, and I was hoping I could get this through adb, but I can’t seem to find a way to access it short of building a tiny app, compatible with all versions, whose sole purpose would be to output android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK or similar somewhere my script could read it.

Answer 1

you can use this command:

adb shell grep ro.build.version.sdk= system/build.prop

It will output something like this:

ro.build.version.sdk=10