Reading Version from manifest.json in a Chrome Packaged App

Question

I want to display my apps version number dynamically on a page, so was wondering if there is a way to read it from the manifest.json in a Chrome Packaged App written in DART language ?

Answer 1

I can't provide a DART-specific answer, but appropriate Chrome API is chrome.runtime.getManifest().

It returns a string an object representing your manifest file; extract the version number with .version.

Answer 2

import 'package:chrome/chrome_app.dart' as chrome;

void main() {
  print(chrome.runtime.getManifest()['version']);
}