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Android Tip : ApplicationInfo

This one is a pretty small but useful tip.

For people who don’t know about it, Android provides a class by the name ApplicationInfo.

As stated by the docs, this class provides information about your application and it collected from the Android Manifest’s <application> tag.

It might not sound useful right now, but may come handy for some use cases :

Let me know in case of any doubts.

Cheers !

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