Find out device type?

[nexirius]

Is it difficult to find out my device? How can I properly do it
with the example below?

I could use for my app something like

if(device==ipad) {
     do this
} else if(device==iphone4) {
     do that
} else {
     do that
}

[iPhoneConnection]

You can use [UIDevice currentDevice].model to get the current device model. UIDevice class reference will give you the possible constant strings which you can compare to (although you might want to check for iPad too).

Remember, you should always compare strings with the isEqualToString: rather than using the comparison operator.

Originally Posted by nexirius

Is it difficult to find out my device? How can I properly do it
with the example below?

I could use for my app something like

if(device==ipad) {
     do this
} else if(device==iphone4) {
     do that
} else {
     do that
}

[Johanovski]

Hi nexirius!

There's an easy way to know some device's properties such as it's name, it's OS and some more things:

[[UIDevice currentDevice] model]; //for example this will return a string that represents the device's model

Check out what [UIDevice currentDevice] can return you (for example, if operating system is 3.2 then you're sure device is an iPad), I'm not sure if it will do what you're expecting, but if not I've seen some days ago a class someone has developed that can be used to check exactly which device model is (I'm sorry, I don't have it hehe), I think it's called "DeviceDetection.h" or something like this...

Hope it helped!

[mxweas]

UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM()

Will return something like UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad or UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone. The nice thing about this, it works on all firmwares. The #define that will just return UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone if UIDevice is too old to support the actual method.

Max

[evan1466]

I used this.

if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) {

}

[geniusprograms]

Originally Posted by nexirius

Is it difficult to find out my device? How can I properly do it
with the example below?

I could use for my app something like

if(device==ipad) {
     do this
} else if(device==iphone4) {
     do that
} else {
     do that
}

Try this:

- (NSString *)deviceName {
    return [[UIDevice currentDevice] name];
}

returns "iPhone 3G" if on a iPhone 3G
or "iPhone Simulator" if on the iPhone simulator etc...

Here's my implementation:

#define iPhone4 @"iPhone 4"
#define iPhone3G @"iPhone 3G"
#define iPhone @"iPhone"
#define iPad @"iPad"
#define iPhone3GS @"iPhone 3G S"

- (NSString *)deviceName {
    return [[UIDevice currentDevice] name];
}

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
   if ([[self deviceName] isEqualToString:iPhone4]) {
       NSLog(@"You're an iPhone 4");
   } else if ([[self deviceName] isEqualToString:iPad]) {
       NSLog(@"You're an iPad");
   }
}

[nexirius]

Sounds great! My main goal is to be able to see if I'm dealing with an iPad
or iPhone. But of course it's useful if you can even find out which version
you have (for example iPhone 4 and the rest) because you have different
screen resolutions!

Thanks a lot for your input. I will try some stuff of it.

[inGGames]

Actually

[[UIDevice currentDevice] name]

will return the name of the phone the user sets when setting it up, so it is not reliable for this sort of testing!