After upgrading project that was made with unity 5.6.3p4 to unity 2018.X and taking an android gradle build, the application version gets set to 1.0 even when version is 3.1.2 in android player settings

I have very similar problem.

I went from 2017-4-2f2 version of Unity to 2017-4-18f1 version.

With this script attached to text UI element in the main menu of my game:

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class TextVersion : MonoBehaviour
 {
     private Text textVersion;
 
     //Awake is always called before any Start functions
     void Awake()
     {
         textVersion = GetComponent<Text>();
     }
 
     //Use this for initialization
     void Start()
     {
         textVersion.text = "Version: " + Application.version;
     }
 }

Before the update, I would always get the correct version of the game written by this script. So if "Version*" in Android player settings was 1.1, I would get "Version: 1.1" in the main menu of the game.

After the update, in Unity editor and PC build of the game, I still get the correct text written "Version: 1.1" but after I build APK of the game for Android and install it on my android device, I always get "Version: 1.0" text. It is like Application.version always states 1.0, no matter the input in "Version*" field of Android player settings. With that said, for example "Package Name" is still reported well in the APK. So this problem might be concerning just "Version*" field for all I know. And beside this, game works fine on my Android device.

I don't have any Android plugins in asset folder of the game (I didn't have a reason so far to use Plugins/Android at all) and following thesanketkale case, I made a change directly in AndroidManifest.xml file in Unity installation dir. Line android:versionName="1.0", which I set to 1.1. After I did this, I got version correctly reported in my built APK. I also don't know what android:versionCode="1" in this manifest is... so I set it to what I set for "Bundle Version Code", but is this equivalent to "Bundle Version Code"? And if I delete android:versionName="1.0" and android:versionCode="1" as thesanketkale did, I get no version reported at all (text in main menu of the game is "Version: ").

Obviously "Version*" input field for whatever reason gets override, in Android player settings so that Application.version is always reporting 1.0 in APK. Is this a bug in Unity? What would be correct way to handle this? Should I create Plugins/Android folder with custom AndroidManifest.xml in it?

Stuff I did during the update of Unity:

• I didn't uninstall previous version of Unity and I just installed the new version over the old one, in the same dir. Everything went without any noticeable problems.

• Once I loaded the game project, Unity warned me that it was project based on old Unity version. When I got in editor, I move/removed an object in the scene, then I saved both scene and the project. Next time I loaded project, Unity didn't complain.

• When I was about to build APK, for the first time in new Unity, Unity warned me that Android SDK build tools were old version 28.0.2 and that new 28.0.3 version was needed, and asked me to update it. It downloaded new version dir in SDK directory and resumed building APK without problems.

Hi all,

My solution under Unity 2017.4.18 is : don't use Gradle (because of the above, very informative answers); rather simply use the Internal Build system, which still does consider the version values in Player Settings.

This can be set under Player Settings > Publishing Settings > Build System, if that is fine for your requirements.

@thesanketkale

Update your mainTemplate.gradle file as in the following:

defaultConfig { applicationId '**APPLICATIONID**' versionCode **VERSIONCODE** versionName '**VERSIONNAME**' }

Unity replaces those with the values you set in PlayerSettings.