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copied!<p>One possible approach. In your AndroidManifest.xml add metadata to your Activities to keep the revision or whatever you want to use</p> <pre><code><activity android:name="SampleActivity"> <meta-data android:value="$Rev: 164 $" android:name="com.example.version" /> </activity> </code></pre> <p>then in your Activity</p> <pre><code>try { final ActivityInfo ai = getPackageManager().getActivityInfo(getComponentName(), PackageManager.GET_META_DATA); final String version = (String)ai.metaData.get("com.example.version"); System.out.println("version: " + version); } catch (NameNotFoundException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } </code></pre> <p>You may also want to set <code>android:versionName="$Rev$"</code> in your manifest.</p> <p>To automate the process of incrementing the version number in <code>android:versionCode</code> and committing the <code>AndroidManifest.xml</code> there are various options, building with <code>maven</code> or <code>ant</code> could be alternatives but let's do it using Eclipse and ADT.</p> <p>First, add a builder to your project (<em>My Project -> Properties -> Builders</em>)</p> <p><img src="https://lh3.ggpht.com/_9_trc1obptk/S2NPRwIQzeI/AAAAAAAAAs8/ukmsfRnhZTY/s576/Screenshot-Properties%20for%20AndroidWasteBasket%20.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>this builder should invoke the <code>android-increment-manifest-version</code> using the project's <code>AndroidManifest.xml</code> as the argument</p> <p><img src="https://lh4.ggpht.com/_9_trc1obptk/S2NPR_UB1aI/AAAAAAAAAs4/Jl5QkoQet6U/s640/Screenshot-Edit%20Configuration%20.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>android-increment-manifest-version script is something like</p> <pre><code>#! /bin/bash # android-increment-manifest-version: # increment the version number found in the AndroidManifest.xml file # (android:versionCode="n") in place and commit it to subversion. # # Copyright (C) 2010 Diego Torres Milano - http://dtmilano.blogspot.com usage() { echo "usage: $PROGNAME AndroidManifest.xml" >&2 exit 1 } PROGNAME=$(basename $0) if [ "$#" -ne 1 ] then usage fi MANIFEST="$1" perl -npi -e 's/^(.*android:versionCode=")(\d+)(".*)$/"$1" . ($2+1) . "$3"/e;' $MANIFEST svn ci -m "Version incremented" $MANIFEST </code></pre>

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