Platform independent access to information about the current operating system.
Exposes operatingSystem and operatingSystemVersion strings similar to those
of the Platform class in dart:io, but also works on the web. The
operatingSystem of a browser is the string "browser". Also exposes convenience
getters like isLinux, isAndroid and isBrowser based on the
operatingSystem string.
To use this package instead of dart:io, replace the import of dart:io with:
import 'package:os_detect/os_detect.dart' as os_detect;That should keep the code working if the only functionality used from dart:io
is operating system detection. You should then use your IDE to rename the import
prefix from Platform to something lower-cased which follows the style guide
for import prefixes.
Any new platform which supports neither dart:io nor dart:html can make
itself recognizable by configuring the dart.os.name and dart.os.version
environment settings, so that const String.fromEnvironment can access them.
It's possible to override the current operating system string, as exposed by
operatingSystem and operatingSystemVersion in
package:os_detect/os_detect.dart. To do so, import the
package:os_detect/override.dart library and use the overrideOperatingSystem
function to run code in a zone where the operating system and version values are
set to whatever values are desired.
The class OperatingSystemID can also be used directly to abstract over the
operating system name and version. The OperatingSystemID.current defaults to
the values provided by the platform when not overridden using
overrideOperatingSystem.