get versionName of osmdroid library programmatically

Issue Type

[x] Question

Description and/or steps/code to reproduce the problem

Is there an easy way to retrieve the current versionName (e.g. “6.1.2”) of the osmdroid library? I tried the following, but in the last step, an exception is thrown.

String versionName = "?";	// default, unknown

MapView mapView    = findViewById(R.id.mapview);
Class mapClass     = mapView.getClass();
Package mapPackage = mapClass.getPackage();
String packageName = mapPackage.getName();    // = "org.osmdroid.views"
PackageManager pManager = this.getPackageManager();

try
{	// the next line throws NameNotFoundException
	PackageInfo pInfo = pManager.getPackageInfo(packageName, 0); 
	versionName = pInfo.versionName;
}
catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e)
{
	e.printStackTrace();
}

Perhaps, I’m thinking too complicated, but an easy way - something like String versionName = mapView.getVersionName(); doesn’t seem to exist. Any ideas appreciated.

Environment

Huawei P10 Lite, Android 8.0.0, SDK_INT 26 (“Oreo”)

Version of osmdroid the issue relates to:

6.1.2

[spyhunter99]

There currently isn’t, but i can add it…

[mikebravoyes]

@spyhunter99 Thanks for your effort!

But what is the correct entry in “build.gradle” now? Until yesterday it was:

dependencies {
    implementation group: 'org.osmdroid', name: 'osmdroid-android', version: '6.1.6'
}

I tried ‘6.1.7’ and ‘6.1.7-SNAPSHOT’, but none of them was working. Error message in the Build Tab:

ERROR: Failed to resolve: org.osmdroid:osmdroid-android:6.1.7 Show in Project Structure dialog Affected Modules: app