How to read current app version in Xcode 11 with script - ios

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

Xcode 11/12
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 2

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 3

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"

Answer 4

I miss here a solution for multiple targets and configurations:
xcodebuild -target <target> -configuration <configuaration> -showBuildSettings | grep -i 'MARKETING_VERSION' | sed 's/[ ]*MARKETING_VERSION = //'
target: the name of the target
configuration: Release, Debug

Answer 5

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 6

Most voted answers by now show how to extract the value through sed and further tools in the chain. Thought to provide a (simpler?) solution just through awk.
Just to give a little bit of context, following one-liner shows the culprit row:
xcodebuild -project MyProj/MyProj.xcodeproj -showBuildSettings | awk '/MARKETING_VERSION/ { print }'
# output
MARKETING_VERSION = 0.0.1
Default awk field separator should be the space, and so it's just a matter of extracting the third field (MARKETING_VERSION is first, the equal sign is second):
xcodebuild -project MyProj/MyProj.xcodeproj -showBuildSettings | awk '/MARKETING_VERSION/ { print $3 }'
# output
0.0.1
HTH

Answer 7

How about saving a value to CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION ? did anyone managed to do this?
I can get the value like
buildNumber=$CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION
but this doesn't work:
CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION="" or $CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION=""
In my case I'm trying to set it to ""
This line doesn't set the CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION field too
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion $buildNumber" "$appInfoPlist"

Answer 8

If your project is set up to use Apple Generic Versioning then you may use this command:
agvtool what-marketing-version -terse1
More info on how to set up AGV can be found here.

Answer 9

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 10

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 11

I'm developing a framework with this scenario:
A workspace
A framework target
An aggregate target with 2 external scripts:
one for build a fat framework
other for prepare the release framework
The key is that in XCode 11 the aggregate framework script doesn't get run environment variables for other workspace targets so it's impossible to read the $MARKETING_VERSION from my framework target.
So the solution that works for me has been use PlistBuddy specifying the Info.plist result of the framework target build in this way:
FAT_FRAMEWORK="${SRCROOT}/build/${FRAMEWORK_NAME}.framework"
BUILD_NUMBER=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleVersion" "${FAT_FRAMEWORK}/Info.plist")
VERSION_NUMBER=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleShortVersionString" "${FAT_FRAMEWORK}/Info.plist")