[SailfishDevel] Read device info
Andrew Penkrat
penkrat8 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 11:59:29 UTC 2017
All software updates are distributed with OTAs and each OTA should
increment Sailfish version number, so knowing this number should be enough.
And it's easier to obtain. Do apps even have any access to PackageKit?
Cheers,
Andrew Penkrat
On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 14:47 Adam Pigg <adam at piggz.co.uk> wrote:
> Would it not be better to query the version of required packages?
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 12:46 Andrew Penkrat <penkrat8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dylan,
>>
>> You can read SFOS version from VERSION_ID line of /etc/os-release and
>> device name from NAME line of /etc/hw-release. Though it claims my Jolla C
>> is actually an Intex Aqua Fish :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew Penkrat
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 13:44 Dylan Van Assche via Devel <
>> devel at lists.sailfishos.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> Does somebody has a way to read the information displayed on the About
>>> Page in Settings?
>>> I would like to retrieve the SFOS version, Device name, ... not for
>>> spying/collecting data (totally against that) but to check if some new
>>> features of SFOS are available for my apps.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Dylan Van Assche
>>>
>>>
>>>
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