How to read current app version in Xcode 11 with s

Question

Until Xcode 11, I used a script that reads the current app version (for the AppStore) and help me change the LaunchScreen since we can't use swift for that.

sourceFilePath="$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/App/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard"
versionNumber=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleShortVersionString" "$INFOPLIST_FILE")
buildNumber=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" "$INFOPLIST_FILE")

sed -i .bak -e "/userLabel=\"APP_VERSION_LABEL\"/s/text=\"[^\"]*\"/text=\"v$versionNumber\"/" "$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/App/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard"

But in Xcode 11 there is a new section inside the project's build settings called Versioning

And CFBundleShortVersionString automatically changed to $(MARKETING_VERSION). Xcode automatically handles that and I don't want to change it manually to an static number and let Xcode do it's work.

So the question is how can I access this new MARKETING_VERSION and set it to my launchScreen label using run script?

Answer 1

If you use Bitrise then the following script will save you:

Extracting App Marketing Version

envman add --key=APP_VERSION_NO --value=`sed -n '/MARKETING_VERSION/{s/MARKETING_VERSION = //;s/;//;s/^[[:space:]]*//;p;q;}' ./${PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT_XCODEPROJ_FILE}/project.pbxproj`

Extracting App Build Number

Extract the Build Number from xcodeproj file only if you use Apple Generic versioning system otherwise extract the Build Number from the XCode project info.plist file.

Note: The following script extracts the Build Number from the xcodeproj file.

envman add --key=APP_BUILD_NO --value=`sed -n '/CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION/{s/CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION = //;s/;//;s/^[[:space:]]*//;p;q;}' ./${PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT_XCODEPROJ_FILE}/project.pbxproj`

Printing to console:

envman run bash -c 'echo "App Version: $APP_VERSION_NO"'

envman run bash -c 'echo "App Build No: $APP_BUILD_NO"'

Thanks to the answer by @babac

Answer 2

I had similar issue and made it work by displaying MARKETING_VERSION itself:

version="$MARKETING_VERSION"
version+=" ("
version+=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" $SRCROOT/MyApp/Info.plist`
version+=")"

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy "$SRCROOT/MyApp/Settings.bundle/Root.plist" -c "set PreferenceSpecifiers:1:DefaultValue $version"

Answer 3

Couldn't find right answer on the internet, so I started digging.

Version and build numbers are displayed in ./PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj as MARKETING VERSION (MV) and CURRENT PROJECT VERSION (CPV).

I used sed to get the numbers. It finds first occurrence of MV or CPV, removes everything except the number, and returns result. In order for this to work, you need to do 2 things:

• navigate to projects root folder
• change PROJECTNAME to your project's name

Commands:

version_number=`sed -n '/MARKETING_VERSION/{s/MARKETING_VERSION = //;s/;//;s/^[[:space:]]*//;p;q;}' ./PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj`
build_number=`sed -n '/CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION/{s/CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION = //;s/;//;s/^[[:space:]]*//;p;q;}' ./PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj`

Result:

Note: If you have more targets in your workspace with different version and build numbers, this might or might not work for you, because it stops on first occurrence. In that case, good luck :)

Answer 4

Xcode 11.3

In terminal or bash script in your project you can use:

App version

xcodebuild -showBuildSettings | grep MARKETING_VERSION | tr -d 'MARKETING_VERSION =' // will be displayed 1.1.6

Build version

xcodebuild -showBuildSettings | grep CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION | tr -d 'CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION =' // will be displayed 7

Or (don't forget to change YouProjectName to your project name):

App version

cat YouProjectName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj | grep -m1 'MARKETING_VERSION' | cut -d'=' -f2 | tr -d ';' | tr -d ' '

Build version

cat YouProjectName.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj | grep -m1 'CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION' | cut -d'=' -f2 | tr -d ';' | tr -d ' '

Or slower method (Thx Joshua Kaden):

App version

xcodebuild -project YouProjectName.xcodeproj -showBuildSettings | grep "MARKETING_VERSION" | sed 's/[ ]*MARKETING_VERSION = //'

Build version

xcodebuild -project YouProjectName.xcodeproj -showBuildSettings | grep "CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION" | sed 's/[ ]*CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION = //'

Answer 5

For Node.js: there is xcode package. Example of usage:

const xcode = require('xcode');

const project = xcode.project('ios/PROJECT_NAME.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj').parse(() => {
  const config = project.pbxXCBuildConfigurationSection();
  const releaseScheme = Object.keys(config).find(key => config[key].name === 'Release');

  const version = config[releaseScheme].buildSettings.MARKETING_VERSION;
});

Previously I used the plist package, but with latest xCode changes it became outdated, since I'm not able to extract a version from Info.plist for React Native projects.

Answer 6

You can use it like any other project variable:

sourceFilePath="$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/App/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard"
versionNumber="$MARKETING_VERSION"
buildNumber="$CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION"

sed -i .bak -e "/userLabel=\"APP_VERSION_LABEL\"/s/text=\"[^\"]*\"/text=\"v$versionNumber\"/" "$PROJECT_DIR/$PROJECT_NAME/App/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard"