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Dave Haigh
Dave Haigh

Reputation: 4547

Output current app's build version as a string - Xamarin.iOS

I want to output the app's current build version as a string onto my app's about view.

Is there a method of reading this dynamically from the info.plist file or elsewhere rather than hardcoding it in?

E.g: Build Version: 1.0

Upvotes: 13

Views: 7643

Answers (2)

richdcs
richdcs

Reputation: 191

public string AppVersion
{
    get
    {
         var appVersionString = NSBundle.MainBundle.ObjectForInfoDictionary("CFBundleShortVersionString").ToString();
         var appBuildNumber = NSBundle.MainBundle.ObjectForInfoDictionary("CFBundleVersion").ToString();

         return $"v{appVersionString} b{appBuildNumber}";
    }
}

Upvotes: 4

jonathanpeppers
jonathanpeppers

Reputation: 26505

You can use this code to pull it out of the plist:

NSBundle.MainBundle.InfoDictionary [new NSString ("CFBundleVersion")].ToString ();

You can also use CFBundleShortVersionString, which is the other value for versions. Xamarin recently added support for both in Xamarin Studio.

Upvotes: 31

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