How to obtain correct windows phone version in Xamarin.Forms

Question

In the recent version Xamarin.Forms the Device.OS property returns for both Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 UWP the "Windows" value. Is there a way to obtain a correct Device OS version to distinguish between the Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 UWP?

Answer 1

if (Device.Idiom == TargetIdiom.Desktop)
{ 
    // UWP
}
else if (Device.OS == TargetPlatform.WinPhone)
{ 
    // WinPhone
}
else if (Device.OS == TargetPlatform.Windows)
{ 
    // Windows 8
}

Just to explain, Windows 8 Idiom is TargetIdiom.Tablet, so the only OS that returns true to TargetIdiom.Desktop is UWP.

Hope it helps!