expo-application
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A universal module that gets native application information such as its ID, app name, and build version at runtime
The expo-application package provides access to system and application information for an Expo app. This includes details such as the app's name, version, build number, and more.
Get Application Name
This feature allows you to retrieve the name of the application.
import * as Application from 'expo-application';
console.log(Application.applicationName);Get Application Version
This feature allows you to get the version of the application.
import * as Application from 'expo-application';
console.log(Application.nativeApplicationVersion);Get Build Number
This feature allows you to retrieve the build number of the application.
import * as Application from 'expo-application';
console.log(Application.nativeBuildVersion);Get Installation Time
This feature allows you to get the installation time of the application.
import * as Application from 'expo-application';
Application.getInstallationTimeAsync().then(time => console.log(time));Get Application ID
This feature allows you to retrieve the application ID.
import * as Application from 'expo-application';
console.log(Application.applicationId);The react-native-device-info package provides device and application information for React Native apps. It offers a broader range of device-specific information compared to expo-application, such as device model, manufacturer, and unique IDs.
The expo-constants package provides system information that remains constant throughout the lifecycle of the app. It includes some overlapping features with expo-application, such as app ownership and manifest details, but also includes additional constants like device year class and platform-specific information.
Gets native application information such as its ID, app name, and build version at runtime.
For managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release.
For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the expo package before continuing.
npx expo install expo-application
Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the contributing guide.
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A universal module that gets native application information such as its ID, app name, and build version at runtime
We found that expo-application demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 35 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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