Detect if Android or iOS within Flex Mobile application

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Sometimes there is a need when you need to detect what environment your Flex mobile application is running.

Common scenario with my projects is to launch a Link to PDF to a external browser rather than using StegeWebView which is built in to Flex SDK.

There could be many other scenarios that I can think of but it depends on the Application writer why and when its required

Here is the code snippet that will help ya out

public function getOS():String {
                                switch(true)
				{
					case (Capabilities.version.indexOf('IOS') > -1):
					{
 
						return "IOS";
					}
					case (Capabilities.version.indexOf('QNX') > -1):
					{
 
						return "BB"; // blackberry
					}
					case (Capabilities.version.indexOf('AND') > -1):
					{
 
						return "ANDROID";
                                        }
                                        default:
							return "";
					break;
				}
}

If you would like to add anything to the above code please leave a comment.

Cheers

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