How to Autogenerate App Version Number from GIT

Application needs a version number, naturally. It's publicly used to identify, which version customer is using (and reporting bugs about).

However there is a very important technical reason to take good care of version number: if you want to update application, the new version number must be bigger than the old one. Sounds easy, yet again...

Let's check the documentation:

How to Sort NSDictionary

Let's get this straight: you cannot sort NSDictionary.

Dictionary is a collection of keys and their objects without an order, therefore you cannot change that non-existing order. You can sort only array data types, since they are basically ordered lists.

There are still good news. You can get all keys from any dictionary as an array and sort them. Usually this is enough.