Comments on: iPhone: Using Pre-processor Directives for Device Testing

By: Ivan Moscoso

Ivan Moscoso — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:06:30 +0000

You are absolutely right- and thanks for pointing it out. After I initially posted this entry, I should have gone back and corrected this.

By: Paul Goracke

Paul Goracke — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:10:09 +0000

The officially supported mechanism for this seems to be TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR for simulator-vs-device and TARGET_OS_IPHONE for Cocoa Touch-vs-desktop. These are detailed in the iPhone Development Guide.

TARGET_CPU_ARM works for now, but makes assumptions about the cpu/environment relationship that may not always hold true.

By: Michou

Michou — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:51:48 +0000

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer this test

#if TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR
// On simulator
#else
// On device
#endif

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