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[Jani Monoses <jani.monoses@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On 16-01-11 06:57 AM, Jani Monoses wrote:
> >
> >     You should not do that... Why do you even want to know?
> >
> > Whether the app is running on the phone vs desktop?
> >
> > * to use different QML since the same QML code cannot (yet) work on both
> > * to use the content-hub for getting a file vs doing a regular file open
> dialog
> > * to load contacts from the content-hub vs from another source that is
> desktop specific
> > * to enable push notifications or not
> > * to assume a different role (master or slave device of the same account)
>
> Just so you know, the difference between a desktop and a phone is that
> when you unplug an external monitor and input
> devices from your phone it is no longer a desktop, but a desktop stays a
> desktop.
>
> If you're developing software *right now* making any other assumptions
> about phone vs. desktop, you're writing bad code
> and breaking things in a highly undesirable way.
>
>
So for the issues in my list above what would be good code that does not
break things in undesirable ways?