Unknown iPad on DeviceMetrics

General
1

I’m currently coding on an iPad Pro, and running a deviceMetrics().platformName gives me “Unknown iPad” as the iPad’s name, is this normal?

2

@ShatteredWindow What do you get when you run this.

function setup()
    d=deviceMetrics()
    for a,b in pairs(d) do
        print(a,b)
    end    
end
3 
PlatformName Unknown iPad
Platform iPad6, 3
Hwmodel J127AP
4

I have an iPad Air, so I can’t say why. Just have to wait for another iPad Pro to run the code and see if they get the same thing.

5

You can work out what it is from the platform “iPad 6,3” is the 9.7 inch iPad Pro. See the complete list of codes here:

https://gist.github.com/adamawolf/3048717

6

platformName is a best guess from the device model. It would be more reliable to use the model (iPad 6,3) instead of platformName

7

Dang, that’s annoying

8

@ShatteredWindow You could always create your own device table and use the platform value to get the name from your table.

9

I’m currently in the process of doing that

10

@ShatteredWindow Here’s a version just in case you haven’t done yours yet.

function setup()  
    dev=    -- comma removed from key value of table
    {   i386='iPhone Simulator',
        x86_64='iPhone Simulator',
        iPhone11='iPhone',
        iPhone12='iPhone 3G',
        iPhone21='iPhone 3GS',
        iPhone31='iPhone 4',
        iPhone32='iPhone 4 GSM Rev A',
        iPhone33='iPhone 4 CDMA',
        iPhone41='iPhone 4S',
        iPhone51='iPhone 5 (GSM)',
        iPhone52='iPhone 5 (GSM+CDMA)',
        iPhone53='iPhone 5C (GSM)',
        iPhone54='iPhone 5C (Global)',
        iPhone61='iPhone 5S (GSM)',
        iPhone62='iPhone 5S (Global)',
        iPhone71='iPhone 6 Plus',
        iPhone72='iPhone 6',
        iPhone81='iPhone 6s',
        iPhone82='iPhone 6s Plus',
        iPhone83='iPhone SE (GSM+CDMA)',
        iPhone84='iPhone SE (GSM)',
        iPhone91='iPhone 7',
        iPhone92='iPhone 7 Plus',
        iPhone93='iPhone 7',
        iPhone94='iPhone 7 Plus',
        iPod11='1st Gen iPod',
        iPod21='2nd Gen iPod',
        iPod31='3rd Gen iPod',
        iPod41='4th Gen iPod',
        iPod51='5th Gen iPod',
        iPod71='6th Gen iPod',
        iPad11='iPad',
        iPad12='iPad 3G',
        iPad21='2nd Gen iPad',
        iPad22='2nd Gen iPad GSM',
        iPad23='2nd Gen iPad CDMA',
        iPad24='2nd Gen iPad New Revision',
        iPad31='3rd Gen iPad',
        iPad32='3rd Gen iPad CDMA',
        iPad33='3rd Gen iPad GSM',
        iPhone51='iPhone 5 GSM+LTE',
        iPhone52='iPhone 5 CDMA+LTE',
        iPod51='5th Gen iPod',
        iPad25='iPad mini',
        iPad26='iPad mini GSM+LTE',
        iPad27='iPad mini CDMA+LTE',
        iPad34='4th Gen iPad',
        iPad35='4th Gen iPad GSM+LTE',
        iPad36='4th Gen iPad CDMA+LTE',
        iPad41='iPad Air (WiFi)',
        iPad42='iPad Air (GSM+CDMA)',
        iPad44='iPad mini Retina (WiFi)',
        iPad45='iPad mini Retina (GSM+CDMA)',
        iPad46='iPad mini Retina (China)',
        iPad47='iPad mini 3 (WiFi)',
        iPad48='iPad mini 3 (GSM+CDMA)',
        iPad49='iPad Mini 3 (China)',
        iPad53='iPad Air 2 (WiFi)',
        iPad54='iPad Air 2 (Cellular)',
        iPad63='iPad Pro (9.7 inch, Wi-Fi)',
        iPad64='iPad Pro (9.7 inch, Wi-Fi+LTE)',
        iPad67='iPad Pro (12.9 inch, Wi-Fi)',
        iPad68='iPad Pro (12.9 inch, Wi-Fi+LTE)'
    }
       
    dm=deviceMetrics()
    key=string.gsub(dm.platform,",","") -- remove comma from dm name
    print(key)  -- show key
    print(dev[key]) -- show device name
end