Access Android Manifest attributes in Java

Question

This is a sample manifest. Is it possible to access the attribute versionCode and versionName from Java? How?

Click to copy

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    [...]

</manifest>

Answer 1

Yep:

Click to copy

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