Best way to programmatically detect iPad/iPhone hardware

Question

The reason I need to find out is that on an iPad, a UIPickerView has the same height in landscape orientation as it does in portrait. On an iPhone it is different. The iPad

Answer 1

Put this method in your App Delegate so that you can call it anywhere using [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] isPad]

-(BOOL)isPad
{
    BOOL isPad;
    NSRange range = [[[UIDevice currentDevice] model] rangeOfString:@"iPad"];
    if(range.location==NSNotFound)
    {
        isPad=NO;


    }
    else {
        isPad=YES;
    }

    return isPad;
}