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Knowing which version of our application is currently running is a useful information (for end user, but also for us, developers!)

Fortunately, as Xamarin Forms is a .NET framework, we can easily obtain this at runtime:

public string AppVersion
{

    get
    {
        Assembly        asm        = this.GetType().GetTypeInfo().Assembly;
        string        name        = iAssemblyInfo.GetAssemblyTitle(asm),
                        copyright    = iAssemblyInfo.GetAssemblyCopyright(asm);

            return name + "\n" + copyright + "\n" + asm.FullName;
    }
}

Some details: this (somehow concise) code benefits of a helper static class that may give you some ideas:

  publicstaticclass iAssemblyInfo

The class exposes several methods like:

public static string GetAssemblyCopyright(Assembly asm)
{
    if(asm == null)
        return "";

    try
    {
        var        attrib    = asm.GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyCopyrightAttribute>();

        return attrib == null ? "" : attrib.Copyright;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        return "";
    }
}

 

public static string GetAssemblyTitle(Assembly asm)
{
    if(asm == null)
        return "";

    try
    {
        var        attrib    = asm.GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyTitleAttribute>();

        return attrib == null ? "" : attrib.Title;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        return "";
    }
}

 

public static string GetAssemblyCompanyName(Assembly asm)
{
    if(asm == null)
        return "";

    try
    {
        var        attrib    = asm.GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyCompanyAttribute>();

        return attrib == null ? "" : attrib.Company;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        return "";
    }
}