Getting Android SDK version of a device from command line

you can use this command:

adb shell grep ro.build.version.sdk= system/build.prop

It will output something like this:

ro.build.version.sdk=10

android shell sdk version

adb shell getprop ro.build.version.sdk

Note @Tim: this works even on phones without grep support on all host OS :-). (i.e. on old phones where toolbox does not support grep you you need to have busybox on your phone).

android shell sdk version

I also discovered a way to get the exact version of Android e.g. 4.2.2 based on the following web article http://xayon.net/looking-for-android-version-with-adb/ You need to be using a unix-like operating system - Linux and Mac OSX are fine, and windows users can use cygwin or equivalent.

At a command line:

echo version=$(adb shell getprop |awk -F":" '/build.version.release/ { print $2 }')|tr -d '[]'

Here is the result for my Nexus 4:

version= 4.2.2

CodeHunter

Getting Android SDK version of a device from command line

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