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BuildConfig.VERSION_NAME is already a string, no need to call toString() on it.
– Makotosan
Commented Apr 4, 2016 at 19:52
Habit. Fair enough
– Mullazman
Commented Apr 6, 2016 at 9:12
There are cases when calling this in your project may get different result from what you would expect. For example if you use an android submodule in your project and you call it from the code of the submodule it will reference to build config of the submodule which may have different version. Or if you call it from the code of your project you may reference by mistake to build config of your submodule and get the same result. Just be careful and double check that you reference to a proper package of the build config.
– MikeL
Commented Oct 5, 2016 at 19:55
Try using this guide: medium.com/@manas/…
– CrandellWS
Commented Aug 19, 2018 at 2:30
difference is BuilConfig is provided by Gradle whereas getting it at runtime is by PackageManager (OS)
– Ishaan Kumar
Commented Jan 24, 2020 at 17:58

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