CONTEXT
I'm developing a Crossword game app that currently runs on iPad devices.
Apple has recently released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ devices, which fortunately have a bigger screen and thus become eligibly to run my game (I have tested my game on a iPhone 5S device and if found that it was not pleasant to the user to run in such screen size).
In this way, I decided to migrate my app to an Universal binary that would include support for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iPad devices.
QUESTION
- Is there any way to restrict my iOS app to run only on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ devices?
Or, at least:
- Is there any way to restrict my iOS app to run only on iPhone 6+ devices?
I know it's probably way too late, and probably doesn't answer the question anyway, but I figured 'what the heck' – it's a nice bit of code to determine ranges of devices, where in cases you may want different functionality.
#import <sys/sysctl.h>
-(BOOL)isANewerDevice{
size_t size;
sysctlbyname("hw.machine", NULL, &size, NULL, 0);
char *machine = malloc(size);
sysctlbyname("hw.machine", machine, &size, NULL, 0);
NSString *platform = [NSString stringWithCString:machine encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
free(machine);
NSString * ending = [platform substringFromIndex:[platform length]-3];
double convertedNumber = [[ending stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"," withString:@"."] doubleValue];
//Devices listed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19584208/identify-new-iphone-model-on-xcode-5-5c-5s
if ([platform containsString:@"iPhone"]) {
if (convertedNumber >= 7.1) { // 6 and above
return YES;
}else{
return NO; //less than a 6 (ie 5S and below)
}
}else if ([platform containsString:@"iPad"]){
if (convertedNumber >= 5.3) { //iPad Air 2 and above
return YES;
}else{
return NO; //iPad Mini 3 and below
}
}
//Failsafe
return NO;
}
The link that's commented in the code: Identify new iPhone model on xcode (5, 5c, 5s)
Note. Due to having containsString
, this will crash on iOS versions less than 8. To support <8.0, try using the following code to retro-fit this function https://stackoverflow.com/a/26416172/1197723
Have fun!