react-native Platform Module Find the OS Type/Version
Example
The first step is to import Platform from the 'react-native' package like so:
import { Platform } from 'react-native'
After you've done that, you can go ahead and access the OS type through Platform.OS allowing you to use it in conditional statements like
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
height: (Platform.OS === 'ios') ? 200 : 100,
})
If you want to detect the Android version, you can use Platform.Version like so:
if (Platform.Version === 21) {
console.log('Running on Lollipop!');
}
For iOS, Platform.Version is returning a String, for complex condition don't forget to parse it.
if (parseInt(Platform.Version, 10) >= 9) {
console.log('Running version higher than 8');
}
If the platform specific logic is complex, one can render two different files based on platform. Ex:
MyTask.android.jsMyTask.ios.js
and require it using
const MyTask = require('./MyTask')
