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<h3>Get IOS version number or string</h3><pre class="lang-c prettyprint" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion]
</pre><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">This message returns a string, which can be casted into int/float with:</div><pre class="lang-c prettyprint" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">-[NSString floatValue]
-[NSString intValue]</pre><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><h4>Example</h4></div><pre class="lang-c prettyprint" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">NSString *ver = [[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion];
int ver_int = [ver intValue];
float ver_float = [ver floatValue];</pre><h4>Notes</h4>
<blockquote style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px 10px 1px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; clear: both; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Both values (floatValue, intValue) will be stripped due to its type, 5.0.1 will become 5.0 or 5 (float or int), for comparing precisely, you will have to separate it to array of INTs check accepted answer here: Check iPhone iOS Version</div></blockquote>
<h3>Get device type (Running device is Ipad or Iphone)</h3><pre style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; height: auto; line-height: 20px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; width: 646.4666748046875px;"> if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad){
//IPAD
}
else{
//IPHONE
}
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