Xamarin forms - How to detect whether the device is touch device or not?

Question

I am developing an app using xamarin forms cross-platform PCL project. I need to know if I can detect whether the device is touch device or not? Is it possible to detect this?

Answer 1

XF does not know if the device is touch or not, but you can detect the kind of device you're running on using Device.Idiom . If you get TargetIdiom.Desktop you know that, in addition of a possible touch screen, the user probably also has a keyboard and a mouse.

Answer 2

I suppose you are asking this to make a TV app . Well unfortunatly at this moment Xamarin.Forms cannot find that, however you can do this in the main Activity like follows

 var uiModeManager = (UiModeManager) GetSystemService(UiModeService);
if (uiModeManager.CurrentModeType == UiMode.TypeTelevision)
{
     _isTv = true;

}
else
{
_isTv = false;

}