Trying to get Package Version Information to display in an "About" message.

Question

Hello,

I have been struggling with getting the versionName for a running application from the PackageInfo Object type.

I have constructed a Parcelable Interface with all of the fields associated with the PackageInfo Object type. The primary input for that interface method is a Parcel object.

I cannot seem to figure out how to correctly associate these Parcelable, Parcel, and PackageInfo objects.

Is there any sample code out there that I can look at? Doesn't seem like it should be that difficult but it seems to be stumping me.

Thanks Jazz

Answer 1

PackageInfo's versionName is a public data member. You do not need to do anything special to get "the versionName for a running application from the PackageInfo Object type". If you have a PackageInfo object named info, you access versionName via info.versionName.

Answer 2

Sample code:

try {
    PackageInfo manager=getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0);
    manager.versionName;
} catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
    //Handle exception
}

Answer 3

I use the following code to get the version used in the manifest. I wrote a small function to encapsulate and hide this somewhat big chunk needed to just get an int.

private int getVersion() {
    int version = -1;
    try {
        PackageInfo pInfo = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), PackageManager.GET_META_DATA);
        version = pInfo.versionCode;
    } catch (NameNotFoundException e1) {
        Log.e(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Name not found", e1);
    }
    return version;
}

This will return the int chosen to identify your version in the market (VersionCode). Not the VersionName. To see how to change to code for this have a look at the code from Casebash.