Get Current Version of the Application from the playstore

In this Blog, we will learn how to Get Current Version of the Application From Play Store.

Google does not provide any direct APIs for getting the current version from the play store and if there are then the process is too clumsy just to get version details.

So, when we try the most answered and most frequently used solution is ( something explained beautifully in the article shared below).

How to get your app’s version name from google play store

But recently, the solution explained in this article, stopped working.

So, this blog is in continuation of the article shared above.

In the VersionChecker Class, you need to make some small changes in the “doInBackground()” method.

The New Version Checker class will be :

public class VersionChecker extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {

    private String newVersion;

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

        try {
            Document document = Jsoup.connect("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID + "&hl=en")
                    .timeout(30000)
                    .userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6")
                    .referrer("http://www.google.com")
                    .get();
            if (document != null) {
                Elements element = document.getElementsContainingOwnText("Current Version");
                for (Element ele : element) {
                    if (ele.siblingElements() != null) {
                        Elements sibElemets = ele.siblingElements();
                        for (Element sibElemet : sibElemets) {
                            newVersion = sibElemet.text();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return newVersion;
    }
}

public class VersionChecker extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {

private String newVersion;

@Override

protected String doInBackground(String... params) {

try {

Document document = Jsoup.connect("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID + "&hl=en")

.timeout(30000)

.userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6")

.referrer("http://www.google.com")

.get();

if (document != null) {

Elements element = document.getElementsContainingOwnText("Current Version");

for (Element ele : element) {

if (ele.siblingElements() != null) {

Elements sibElemets = ele.siblingElements();

for (Element sibElemet : sibElemets) {

newVersion = sibElemet.text();

}

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

return newVersion;

}

Hope This Helps You.

Stay tuned, Stay Super.

Keep Coding and Keep Sharing 🙂

anchit 26 October 2021

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13 comments

Tanmay Jul 10, 2020 at 11:47 am

i implemented this way in my app but i am getting delay in app startup for 2-5 sec with blank screen please help

anchit (Moderator) Dec 29, 2020 at 1:26 am
This code has nothing to do with the black screen.

For the black screen issue fixation, you need to optimize the code.

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karthimeyan m Aug 20, 2020 at 5:40 pm

public class VersionChecker extends AsyncTask {

private String newVersion;

@Override
protected String doInBackground(String… params) {

try {
Document document = Jsoup.connect(“https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=” + BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID + “&hl=en”)
.timeout(30000)
.userAgent(“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6”)
.referrer(“http://www.google.com”)
.get();
if (document != null) {
Elements element = document.getElementsContainingOwnText(“Current Version”);
for (Element ele : element) {
if (ele.siblingElements() != null) {
Elements sibElemets = ele.siblingElements();
for (Element sibElemet : sibElemets) {
newVersion = sibElemet.text();
}
}
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return newVersion;
}
}

I have try to this code but have getting null value only for play store version name

karthimeyan m Aug 20, 2020 at 5:41 pm

I have try to this code but have getting null value only for play store version name

anchit (Moderator) Dec 29, 2020 at 1:32 am
Is your application actually live on play store ?

Please share the value of the BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID

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- geet May 30, 2022 at 9:17 pm
  Hy! I am also getting null value. If it is resolved in your side…could you please tell the solution?
  
  Reply
  - anchit (Moderator) Aug 7, 2022 at 11:33 pm
    
    This Solution does not works as Google has updated their play store website and changed the dom structure, app versions are now hidden behind a modal that is dynamically loaded.
    
    I am also looking for a solution.
    
    Reply

Jayesh Sakre Sep 25, 2021 at 2:12 pm

Working Super Fine.

anchit (Moderator) Sep 25, 2021 at 5:51 pm
Thanks

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Zap! May 30, 2022 at 10:15 pm

HI,
Starting from today morning, this code is not working
(your code is working till yesterday)
now “newVersion” variable is just return null. may be play.google site is updated.

Could you please help!
Thanks million

anchit (Moderator) Aug 7, 2022 at 11:33 pm
This Solution does not works as Google has updated their play store website and changed the dom structure, app versions are now hidden behind a modal that is dynamically loaded.

I am also looking for a solution.

Reply

SAIFUDHEEN VK Jun 6, 2022 at 11:31 pm

It doesn’t work now. Android changed play store ui

anchit (Moderator) Aug 7, 2022 at 11:34 pm

This Solution does not works as Google has updated their play store website and changed the dom structure, app versions are now hidden behind a modal that is dynamically loaded.

I am also looking for a solution.

Reply

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