Get WebView version number for lollipop?

Question

I have Lollipop, and see that we have a separate app for "android system webview". Is there any way to get its version number from my own app that uses a WebView instance?

I'd like to report some stats on which version my users are using.

Thanks

Answer 1

How about checking the user-agent string?

Log.i("WebViewActivity", "UA: " + mWebView.getSettings().getUserAgentString()); 

For me, this outputs:

User-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; Nexus 4 Build/LRX21T) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/37.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

More info: WebView on Android

In case you override UA string with your own:

String getWebviewVersionInfo() {     // Overridden UA string     String alreadySetUA = mWebView.getSettings().getUserAgentString();      // Next call to getUserAgentString() will get us the default     mWebView.getSettings().setUserAgentString(null);      // Devise a method for parsing the UA string     String webViewVersion =             parseUAForVersion(mWebView.getSettings().getUserAgentString());      // Revert to overriden UA string     mWebView.getSettings().setUserAgentString(alreadySetUA);      return webViewVersion; } 

Answer 2

UPDATE: Apparently this will not always accurately give the actual WebView client being used on the target device. As of Android 7.0 users can select preferred client (h/t @Greg Dan).

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First, we get the package name from Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview

Then this

PackageManager pm = getPackageManager(); try {     PackageInfo pi = pm.getPackageInfo("com.google.android.webview", 0);     Log.d(TAG, "version name: " + pi.versionName);     Log.d(TAG, "version code: " + pi.versionCode); } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {     Log.e(TAG, "Android System WebView is not found"); } 

gives

D/WebViewDetails﹕ version name: 39 (1743759-arm) D/WebViewDetails﹕ version code: 320201 

Hope this helps.