Android: smartphone or tablet

Question

When receiving a web request from an Android device, is there a way to know if it comes from a smartphone or from a tablet? If any Javascript tweak must be pre-applied - good as well.

Shouldn't you care more about technical characteristics, like physical screen size, rather than whether the marketing blurbs use the word "phone", "tablet", "phablet", etc.? — CommonsWare, Dec 23 '12 at 16:03
Possible Duplicate : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9279111/determine-if-the-device-is-a-smartphone-or-tablet — Pranav 웃, Dec 23 '12 at 16:03
Try taking a look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5341637/how-do-detect-android-tablets-in-general-useragent — Dimse, Dec 23 '12 at 16:16
@PranavKapoor I am asking about the Web side, not applications. — BreakPhreak, Dec 24 '12 at 08:42
It would seem like it, yes. Would love for there to be a more elegant solution, but so very few things about the internet are elegant.. — Dimse, Dec 24 '12 at 23:13
@Dimse checked, haven't seen `mobile Android` anywhere here in reports — BreakPhreak, Dec 25 '12 at 14:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '15 at 20:54

basically by checking the useragent

this does not work in all cases (search for Mobile), but almost all cases and should work in future releases even better. The only exception from above seems to be a uncommon browser that was used on the tablet.

js

var appv= navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase();
if(appv.search("android") > -1 && !(appv.search("mobile"))){
  //is android tablet
}else if (appv.search("android") > -1){
  //is android phone
}

Android: smartphone or tablet

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