Question

Using Adobe AIR for Android, I’d like to find a way to distinguish a phone from a tablet. The closest I can find is detecting the dpi. (My phone dpi is 254, my tablet is 149) but is that going to be reliable or is there a better way?

(I’ve been using stackoverflow for a while but this is my first post – yippee!!)

Answer 1

but is that going to be reliable

Absolutely not. A T-Mobile G1 would be a tablet by that measure.

is there a better way?

Frankly, you should not be caring whether an Android device is a telephone, tablet, television, toaster, telescope, or toilet.

You should be caring about characteristics and capabilities.

For example, if you are thinking about tablets in terms of screen size, use <supports-screens> and the -large and -xlarge resource sets (e.g., res/layout/ for normal stuff and res/layout-large/ for larger screen sizes).

Or, if you are thinking about tablets in terms of whether or not you can place a phone call, use <uses-feature> and hasSystemFeature() on PackageManager.