Android mobile user agent?

Question

I'm currently making an android application for a forum, basically it just loads the website in a webview and that works fine and all, but I'm trying to add an option to view the full site or the mobile site.

I got it working by just making a boolean BrowserType which when set to true, loads the mobile site in the webview, and when set to false, loads the full page. I already have it working and everything, the full site loads and I jsut have the user agent as "Chrome", and I set the mobile user agent to "Mobile", but that doesn't work, what am I supposed to use as the user agent for mobile? Just for reference, this is the method I'm using:

myWebView.getSettings().setUserAgentString("Chrome");

Then for the mobile one instead of "Chrome", I used "Mobile". What is the correct user agent for mobile?

score 35 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '11 at 23:10

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This is an example of user agent for android:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Nexus One Build/FRF50) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

And you can use simply:

myWebView.getSettings().setUserAgentString("Android");

answered Sep 06 '11 at 23:10

Luis

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When I do that, and I set the webview to Android, it just doesn't load anything, but when it's set to full it loads the full website. – Darren Sep 06 '11 at 23:17
does your site have a mobile version? – FoamyGuy Sep 06 '11 at 23:47

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '19 at 14:20

As 2019 for Android devices have a look to: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent

So as documentation says:

WebView UA in Lollipop and Above

In the newer versions of WebView, you can differentiate the WebView by looking for the wv field as show in bold below.

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; Nexus 5 Build/LMY48B; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/43.0.2357.65 Mobile Safari/537.36

jilin james · Answer 3 · 2020-08-19T04:13:52.803

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Create a new string In the activity of the webview, create a new string,

String MyUA = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 " +
        "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36";

So we created a string for user agent, the user agent defined in the string is of a desktop browser user agent, with this user agent set – your Android browser will load desktop version of websites. You can change this user agent to other user agents you like.

So we set the string, now let’s call it

web.getSettings().setUserAgentString(MyUA)

Here we called the string that we have set, it is ready now.

This code can be inside the oncreate method of the web activity.

edited Aug 19 '20 at 04:13

answered Aug 18 '20 at 15:56

jilin james

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score -7 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 24 '13 at 06:20

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Use webview.getSettings().setUserAgent(int); in the int parameter ,0 is a mobile browser while 1 is desktop browser

answered Dec 24 '13 at 06:20

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