PKDEVICE.platform

(part of PKDEVICE)

Return Type: string

Returns: ios, android, wince, ...

Inspects Phonegap's device.platform to determine the actual platform. Therefore, any values returned by device.platform can be returned by this method. The method coalesces "ipad" and "iphone" to "ios" for versions of Phonegap < 2.3. For versions of PhoneGap 2.3 and higher, the device.platform property already returns "iOS", and so all this method does is lowercase it.

Note: As of 0.3, if the device can not be determined (say, because it's being used by cordova serve), this function returns "unknown".

Example:

PKDEVICE.platform();
// returns "ios"

The value can be overridden by setting PKDEVICE.platformOverride to a value other than false.

Version

0.1 Introduced

0.3 +unknown, +PG2.3 changes, Docs Valid