This is a little snippet to fetch the versionName from the AndroidManifest.xml
public static String getVersionName(Context context) { try { ComponentName comp = new ComponentName(context, context.getClass()); PackageInfo pinfo = context.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(comp.getPackageName(), 0); return pinfo.versionName; } catch (android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) { return null; } }