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After much scouring the NDK headers and docs, I haven't been able to find a way to query app version information at runtime. Does such a facility exist currently? Parsing the App's manifest seems like an alternative but not ideal.
There is no supported API to do this yet, so for now parsing the app/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file is definitely the way to go. The system retrieves the info from there anyway, so you might think of it as just "going straight to the source".
Would be really neat if they added such APIs. Was looking for them yesterday and it's possible with the other SDKs (at least WebWorks and Adobe AIR).
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I'm pretty sure AIR parses its own application.xml file, and I suspect WebWorks does the same.
There is actually likely to be such an API, with info richer than what those two provide right now, but from what I can see of it (undocumented for now) it's very much in flux, so there's no point discussion that just yet.
They do parse the config file, but nevertheless, an official API is needed and RIM should know that devs want them (even though they probably already planed it
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