Android device information

Question

Is there an API for programmatically extracting information regarding the current Android device? For example, properties like "model", "OS" etc.

This would be an analogue of iOS's UIDevice class and instance properties.

Answer 1

Try This:

String _OSVERSION = System.getProperty("os.version");
String _RELEASE = android.os.Build.VERSION.RELEASE;
String _DEVICE = android.os.Build.DEVICE; 
String _MODEL = android.os.Build.MODEL; 
String _PRODUCT = android.os.Build.PRODUCT; 
String _BRAND = android.os.Build.BRAND; 
String _DISPLAY = android.os.Build.DISPLAY; 
String _CPU_ABI = android.os.Build.CPU_ABI; 
String _CPU_ABI2 = android.os.Build.CPU_ABI2; 
String _UNKNOWN = android.os.Build.UNKNOWN; 
String _HARDWARE = android.os.Build.HARDWARE;
String _ID = android.os.Build.ID; 
String _MANUFACTURER = android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER; 
String _SERIAL = android.os.Build.SERIAL; 
String _USER = android.os.Build.USER; 
String _HOST = android.os.Build.HOST;

More info at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html

Answer 2

You can use the class android.os.Build to get most of the device information.

For example:

String myDeviceModel = android.os.Build.MODEL;