Get Current Version of the Application from the playstore

anchit

26 October 2021

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.

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