iphone - determine ipad device

Question

I am writing a universal app for both iphone and ipad. How do I determine if the device is an iPad. I have used this link to determine the iPhone type (3G, 3GS).

Determine device (iPhone, iPod Touch) with iPhone SDK

Answer 1

It is highly recommended that you not do device type detection for determining if the application is running on an iPad, but that you examine either features or the user interface idiom. Many applications that test just for specific device types break when new hardware comes out (which tends to be pretty frequent).

Usually, if you need to determine if an application is running on an iPad, it is because you need to adjust the user interface to match the larger display area of the device. For that, Apple recommends that you check the user interface idiom using code like the following:

if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad)
{
    // iPad-specific interface here
}
else
{
    // iPhone and iPod touch interface here
}