You might be limited by the Google Play store and/or manifest specs.
I'm not positive, but I think Google allows only digits separated by
dots, no letters.
For Google Chrome extensions, I'm positive that this is the rule. That's
why we (in our ext) used the same trick, and put the "real" version
somewhere in a string, and set the digits only in the manifest.
Margaret Leibovic wrote on 09.05.2016 19:15:
Hi friends,
Can anyone help me understand the difference between MOZ_APP_VERSION
and MOZ_APP_VERSION_DISPLAY?
I see that in our AndroidManifest, we use MOZ_APP_VERSION to set our
Android version name [1]. However, this means that for beta, we
display the number version, without the "b" bit, e.g. "47.0". Looking
at about:firefox [2], for example, I see that we use the
MOZ_APP_VERSION_NAME property to display a number that includes the
beta version, e.g. "47.0b2". It actually seems like beta is the only
channel where version.txt [3] and version_display.txt [4] differ. Why
is that?
This question is motivated by the fact that we use the Android version
name (MOZ_APP_VERSION) for our switchboard match condition [5]. This
means that for beta we can't match on a specific beta version, which
is what I want to do to test a "What's New" notification (i.e. don't
create a new notification for users every time their beta build updates).
The simplest change I can see to address this situation is to update
our Android version name to use MOZ_APP_VERSION_DISPLAY instead of
MOZ_APP_VERSION, but I don't know what repercussions that may have.
Alternately, I could update our switchboard logic to use the
MOZ_APP_VERSION value, but right now there's nothing Mozilla-specific
in the switchboard code, and it would be great to keep it that way.
Thanks,
Margaret
[1]
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/043082cb7bd8/mobile/android/base/AndroidManifest.xml.in#l7
[2]
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/043082cb7bd8/mobile/android/chrome/content/about.xhtml#l27
[3]
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/annotate/tip/browser/config/version.txt
[4]
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/annotate/tip/browser/config/version_display.txt
[5]
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/bae525a694e2/mobile/android/thirdparty/com/keepsafe/switchboard/SwitchBoard.java#l148
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