[Interest] How to distinguish from iPhone screen type with Qt/Qml

[Nuno Santos]

Hi,

I’m trying to make my iOS apps ready for iPhone X screen as well as the new iPads.

How can I distinguish the screen types? Can I do that directly from Qml? How?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Nuno

[ekke]

Hi Nuno,
one way is to detect from pixels

perhaps this gives you an idea:
https://github.com/ekke/c2gQtWS_x/blob/master/cpp/unsafearea.cpp

later will use mobile device types to better distinguish between
different models
best overview I found here: https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717

ekke

Post by Nuno Santos
Hi,
I’m trying to make my iOS apps ready for iPhone X screen as well as the new iPads.
How can I distinguish the screen types? Can I do that directly from Qml? How?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Nuno
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[maitai]

Hi,
Here I call an objective C function at startup, which stores a global
boolean var

if ( [(NSString*)[UIDevice currentDevice].model hasPrefix:@"iPad"] )
isIphone = false;
else
isIphone = true;

Philippe.

Post by ekke
Hi Nuno,
one way is to detect from pixels
https://github.com/ekke/c2gQtWS_x/blob/master/cpp/unsafearea.cpp
later will use mobile device types to better distinguish between
different models
best overview I found here: https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717
ekke

Post by Nuno Santos
Hi,
I’m trying to make my iOS apps ready for iPhone X screen as well as the new iPads.
How can I distinguish the screen types? Can I do that directly from Qml? How?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Nuno
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[Jason H]

I write ALL my mobile apps in terms of display percentage. The Notch issue is particularly annoying because it behaves as if it doesn't exist, so you have to make a space reservation for it. It would help if the Qt QML global gave you the model, like Qt.platform.model so you could activate a top margin with a property binding. Ce'est la vie. You have to call a native platform function to do that...

Sent: Monday, December 03, 2018 at 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Interest] How to distinguish from iPhone screen type with Qt/Qml
Hi Nuno,
one way is to detect from pixels
https://github.com/ekke/c2gQtWS_x/blob/master/cpp/unsafearea.cpp
later will use mobile device types to better distinguish between
different models
best overview I found here: https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717
ekke

Post by Nuno Santos
Hi,
I’m trying to make my iOS apps ready for iPhone X screen as well as the new iPads.
How can I distinguish the screen types? Can I do that directly from Qml? How?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Nuno
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[Nuno Santos]

Hi,

Thank you all for sharing your approaches.

I found one approached shared at the end of the following bug report, by David Hess (which requires linking to gui-private) that seemed to me very simple but it is not fully working in my case.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-64574 <https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-64574>

By the way, on initial email subject there was a X missing! Sorry for that! :)

Best regards,

Nuno

Post by ekke
Hi Nuno,
one way is to detect from pixels
https://github.com/ekke/c2gQtWS_x/blob/master/cpp/unsafearea.cpp
later will use mobile device types to better distinguish between
different models
best overview I found here: https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717
ekke

Hi,
I’m trying to make my iOS apps ready for iPhone X screen as well as the new iPads.
How can I distinguish the screen types? Can I do that directly from Qml? How?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Nuno
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[Jérôme Godbout]

You can take a look at Qt.application.screens and detect by resolution along with Qt.platforms should be doable but I think the http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsysinfo.html QSysInfo will give you a better check and you can expose this to a property or Q_INVOKABLE function. It doesn't seem to have anything to display the phone model. So you can do an .mm obj-c call:
[[UIDevice currentDevice] platformString]
Should do the trick.
Put this into a QString return value function QString::fromNString() and you should be good to go. You might need to stub this on other platform.

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Subject: [Interest] How to distinguish from iPhone screen type with Qt/Qml

Hi,

I’m trying to make my iOS apps ready for iPhone X screen as well as the new iPads.

How can I distinguish the screen types? Can I do that directly from Qml? How?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Nuno
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