uidevice

This question already has an answer here: iOS detect if user is on an iPad 16 answers Is there an API for checking at runtime whether you are running on an iPhone or an iPad? One way I can think of would be to use: [[UIDevice currentDevice] model]; And detect the existence of the string @"iPad" - which seems a bit fragile. In the 3.2 SDK, I see that UIDevice also has a property which is really what I'm looking for, but doesn't work for pre-3.2 (obviously): [[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom]; Are there other ways than checking for the existence of @"iPad" for a universal app? Andiih

It seems that when my app loads, it does not know its current orientation: UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation]; if (orientation == UIDeviceOrientationPortrait) { NSLog(@"portrait");// only works after a rotation, not on loading app } Once I rotate the device, I get a correct orientation, but when I load the app, without changing the orientation, it seems that using [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] doesn't know the current orientation. Is there another way to check this when I first load my app? groomsy EDIT: I mis-read your question. This will

I need to detect when the device is in portrait orientation so that I can fire off a special animation. But I do not want my view to autorotate. How do I override a view autorotating when the device is rotated to portrait? My app only needs to display it's view in landscape but it seems I need to support portrait also if I want to be able to detect a rotation to portrait. David M. Syzdek Try doing the following when the application loads or when your view loads: [[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications]; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self

Is there any way or hack to detect on what color (black / white) iPhone, iPad or iPod touch the iOS is installed? I want to load corresponding UI skins in case of Black or White devices. There's a private API to retrieve both the DeviceColor and the DeviceEnclosureColor . UIDevice *device = [UIDevice currentDevice]; SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"deviceInfoForKey:"); if (![device respondsToSelector:selector]) { selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"_deviceInfoForKey:"); } if ([device respondsToSelector:selector]) { NSLog(@"DeviceColor: %@ DeviceEnclosureColor: %@", [device performSelector