Access to the bar - descriptor.xml within the app

Is it possible to get the properties of the bar - descriptor.xml? Particularly interested in the app id to understand app whenever it is a free or paid application version

There are PackageInfo and ApplicationInfo classes that contain this information:

http://developer.BlackBerry.com/Cascades/reference/bb__packageinfo.html

http://developer.BlackBerry.com/Cascades/reference/bb__applicationinfo.html

To extract the appId:

#include ...

bb::PackageInfo pi;
QString appId = pi.name();

Add LIBS +=-lbb in the .pro file

You can also analyze the file manually, these threads contain more information on how to locate it:

http://supportforums.BlackBerry.com/T5/native-development/extract-version-number-from-bar-descriptor...

http://supportforums.BlackBerry.com/T5/native-development/APIs-to-access-bar-descriptor-XML/m-p/1737...

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