How to Get App Version Name in Kotlin Android

Sometimes we have to get the current App version in Android to send it to our server or to show App update popup. You can use the following method to get the App Version Name in Kotlin Android.

fun GetAppVersion(context: Context): String {
    var version = ""
    try {
        val pInfo = context.packageManager.getPackageInfo(context.packageName, 0)
        version = pInfo.versionName
    } catch (e: PackageManager.NameNotFoundException) {
        e.printStackTrace()
    }

    return version
}

This is how you can call this method.

val versionName = GetAppVersion(this)

It will return the App version name in the form of “1.0” etc.

As you can see in this method, it uses PackageManager to get package info. And from that package info, we can get version name.

That’s it. Enjoy 🙂

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