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Re: How to detect if application is run on Phone or on other device (tablet)?

 

On 23 October 2015 at 21:44, Bartosz Kosiorek <gang65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I would like to implement dynamic change of "About phone" string.
> If you run on phone it will be "About phone" on other devices I would like
> "About device".
>

​Hi Bartosz,

thanks for looking at this. You're describing bug 1258211 [1], so we should
implement it per the spec provided by Matthew [2].

For a discussion on how to determine the form factor, please refer to [3].

BR, Jonas

[1]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1258211
​
​[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AboutThisDevice#Phone​;
​[3] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg16047.html​;

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