Getting Windows Phone version and device name in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML

Question

In Windows Phone 8 Silverlight I use

 Environment.OSVersion.ToString()

to get Windows Phone version and

DeviceStatus.DeviceManufacturer+" "+DeviceStatus.DeviceName

to get device name.

These APIs no longer work with Windows Phone 8.1 XAML. I have found

Windows.Security.ExchangeActiveSyncProvisioning.EasClientDeviceInformation()

this seems to return the manufacturer and device name but OS is returned as just "Windows Phone".

Is there a way to get the exact Windows phone version?

Answer 1

This is currently not possible In Windows Runtime 8.1 (Phone and Windows). It does look like it might be planned thanks to Morten Nielsen and Pete Brown

EDIT : This is now possible in Windows 10. See this SO answer as well as this article for more useful features.

Answer 2

For 8.1, you can use this project on Github https://github.com/Microsoft/phone-info that includes an example application for retrieving both static and dynamic properties of a Windows Phone device.

For Windows 10, the APIs that were used to gather these data on (8 and 8.1) have changed. I have found one blog post https://www.suchan.cz/2015/08/uwp-quick-tip-getting-device-os-and-app-info/ for someone who has created a helper class that retrieves the following properties from a Windows 10 UWP app

current OS family - phone/desktop/...

current OS build number - 10.0.10240.16413

current OS architecture - x86/x64/ARM

current App Display Name

current App Version - 3.0.2.0

current Device manufacturer - Nokia

current Device model - Lumia 1520

In his post he shows how to get basic data about current device, operating system and application.

give it a try maybe it helps

Answer 3

In Windows Phone 8.1:

Windows.Security.ExchangeActiveSyncProvisioning.EasClientDeviceInformation().FriendlyName

It worked for me!