Question

In my universal app I need to check if the current device is an iPad or iPhone. How can I do this programmatically? I plan to put the code in my viewDidLoad.

Answer 1

check if UISplitViewController class available on the platform, if so make sure it is iPad using Apple’s macro (notice that UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad constant is available only on iOS 3.2 and up).

if (NSClassFromString(@"UISplitViewController") != nil && UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) {
        //currentDeviceType = iPad;
    }
    else {
        //currentDeviceType = iPhone;
    }