I want to display the current revision number of my Android project to the user. I use the subclipse plugin for Eclipse and already found out that I somehow need the program svnversion.
I've found this answer, but I don't get at all where I have to change what and how I finally access the number to put it into a TextView. Also, I feel a bit sheepish about interfering with the Android build process.
Is there some easier explanation / example out there?
Kind regards, jellyfish
I would suggest not using the version control for showing version number. Revision numbers and app version are inherently different. You don't want to notch your app version for a spelling fix :-) .
What you can do is set your version name in the manifest to refer a string from values/string.xml . You can then show this string in the app where ever needed.