Specifying Android library version code/name

Question

Which is the right place to specify android's library project version code/name? Whats the current state on a library's Android Manifest? When you bundle a library jar, can AndroidManifest be ignored while bundling jar and still delivering a usable/unbroken jar?

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Answer 1

You set version code/ name of a project in its AndroidManifest.xml. But if it's a library project, all information in the manifest will be ignored after integrating into the host project.

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Answer 2

BuildConfig.VERSION_NAME
BuildConfig.VERSION_CODE

Just make sure that you import the BuildConfig for your library (as literally every android library/app has it's own BuildConfig on it's package path). The Android Studio's Gradle Build system indicates that this is always generated as of version 0.7.0 (see changelog). This persists as a generated class into the hosting app/library.