Can Adobe AIR retrieve the hardware specifications of the device it is running on?

Question

I am writing an application which is supposed to work on various mobile devices, and i need to retrieve the device hardware on which it is running.

• Is it possible, and how ( if it is ) to retrieve the device hardware parameters ?

Answer 1

As Flextras pointed out, check out the documentation for the following classes:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/system/Capabilities.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/sensors/Geolocation.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/system/System.html

You may find additional stuff of interest within the flash.system.* package:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/system/package-detail.html