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What is your solution to get the version number for the about dialog?

Is there a standard way like Androids "BuildConfig" or do I need to implement something on my own?

same solution as in above message shall work

BuildKonfig is working well for me in a multiplatform module <https://github.com/yshrsmz/BuildKonfig>

<@U025FAKGGJY> I am using my <https://github.com/theapache64/stackzy/blob/4c76fe3fab9b58cd887ad2be36a10338d5296ae8/src/main/kotlin/com/theapache64/stackzy/App.kt#L43|own> version and it works perfectly fine.

<https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B8L3U69/p1610495662094800>

<@UJQB4DJF7> I switched to this solution, but it's not quite clear when to execute it. I tried to let it depend on "preBuild", but that only works always for Android. Now I do it via project.afterEvaluate{}, but that is problematic with "clean build" task :confused:

for Android, use `android.applicationVariants.all { registerJavaGeneratingTask(...) }` (or whatever needs to be tweaked for your situation)
for JVM projects, that *should* work out of the box, the file collection given to the sourceset tracks the dependency automatically
not sure why it would be interacting badly with `clean`, but you could try `mustRunAfter("clean")`

Thank you, I will try that :slightly_smiling_face:

ah, that seems to be just a gradle issue. <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/2488>