Wow thats pretty cool Mark. I thought the PackageManager was limited to providing info about the app that you are calling it from.
Thanks for the tip. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Mark Murphy<[email protected]> wrote: > > Sean Hodges wrote: >> As far as I'm aware of, there isn't a way to check the version number >> of an app from the base Android interface. > > Sure there is! > > PackageManager has getPackageInfo(), and PackageInfo has versionCode and > versionName, as encoded in the manifest. You need to know the package > name for which you want the version information, but it's all right there. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Need help for your Android OSS project? http://wiki.andmob.org/hado > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
