Fixed bug 1600 - SDL_GetPlatform() returns "unknown os" on Android Pallav Nawani 2012-09-14 03:23:02 PDT Looking through the code for SDL_GetPlatform(), it is obvious that the case for Android platform doesn't exist. And hence SDL_GetPlatform() doesn't return a useful string on Android Phones.

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