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I think Xamarin Essentials has a class for you. It should be appinfo
How to get app version from manifest to view
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Jean-Baptiste Delvaux
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Greetings,
I would like to simply show the current version of my application on the login page. I didn't create it myself, so I'm mostly self taught in xamarin forms.
Basically, the manifest in the picking.android project and the view I need it to show from is in the picking project. I never truly questioned how the two worked together as they did without issue so far. But for the 1st time, I need to worry about sending information from the manifest to the part of the app I use, and while I could just hard write it, it doesn't really sound professional of me.
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JarvanZhang 23,951 Reputation points2021-08-03T02:00:39.027+00:00 Hi, JeanBaptisteDelvaux-5990. Xamarin.Essentials provides the
AppInfoclass andVersionTrackingclass which could help you get the version in the shared project directly.private void Button_Clicked(object sender, EventArgs e) { //1. var currentVersion = VersionTracking.CurrentVersion; //2. var currentVersion = AppInfo.VersionString; }For more details, please refer to the documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/essentials/version-tracking#using-version-tracking
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/essentials/app-information?tabs=android#obtaining-application-information
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