How can you get the Manifest Version number from the App’s (Layout) XML variables?

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There is not a way to directly get the version out, but there are two work-arounds that could be done.

  1. The version could be stored in a resource string, and placed into the manifest by:

    <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     package="com.somepackage"
     android:versionName="@string/version" android:versionCode="20">

  2. One could create a custom view, and place it into the XML. The view would use this to assign the name:

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

Either of these solutions would allow for placing the version name in XML. Unfortunately there isn’t a nice simple solution, like android.R.string.version or something like that.

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