Device detection is the process of deducing information, such as usable screen width and browser type, about a client device. For web services, device detection is typically performed by way of User-Agent string matching, as a way of tailoring content to different types of devices.
Questions tagged [device-detection]
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Determine if the device is a smartphone or tablet?
I would like to get info about a device to see if it's a smartphone or tablet. How can I do it?
I would like to show different web pages from resources based on the type of device:
String s="Debug-infos:";
s += "\n OS Version: " +…
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How do detect Android Tablets in general. Useragent?
I have looked everywhere. We are using a Motorola Zoom to try our tablet site testing.
The issue is that the Android Useragent is a general Useragent and there is no difference between tablet Android and mobile Android. I don't want to just target…
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How to detect which device view you're on using Twitter Bootstrap API?
I have just started to play around with Twitter Bootstrap API for a project I have coming up. The main nav contains 3 main elements:
site nav
social links nav
search the site form
I am using the collapse plugin to collapse the site nav and search…
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How to detect device is Android phone or Android tablet?
I have two apps for Android tablets and Android phones. For tablet app I set android:minSdkVersion="11". But nowadays Android phones like Galaxy S3 has Android version 4.0.4 so S3 users can download my tablet app from Google Play Store. I want to…
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Using Modernizr to test for tablet and mobile - Opinions wanted
I want to use Modernizr to detect whether a user is view a site on a desktop, tablet or mobile device.
My initial first thoughts are obviously to check screen sizes that should be enough for mobile devices and also for larger desktops. For tablet…
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How to detect the device on React SSR App with Next.js?
on a web application I want to display two different Menu, one for the Mobile, one for the Desktop browser.
I use Next.js application with server-side rendering and the library react-device-detect.
Here is the CodeSandox link.
import Link from…
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What are best practices for detecting pixel ratio/density?
I am currently using JavaScript for mobile device detection on my website, this then allows me to serve different content for mobile or desktop users.
Currently I use window.devicePixelRatio and screen.width to work out if the user if on a mobile…
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Best Open Source WURFL alternative
I am looking to do some device detection in PHP and I am looking into a few options. The one that looks the best right now is WURFL http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/. But I am very leery of it because of its non open source license. I am also wondering…
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Detect mobile devices - and tablet devices
I am currently looking at some code for PHP detection of mobiles, which is probably quite easy.
Now I just have got one problem - I want to make it possible to make unique view-files in my MVC-framework for tablets, mobiles and web pages. So I need…
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Device detection if is android?
I have an meteor app that is deployed for both ios and android device and i want certain code to run on only ios device and not on android. I know that I can detect device using navigator.userAgent but this will only work if i have my app running on…
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Detect model of iOS device using Javascript or HTML?
So I'm serving H.264 .mp4 video on my website. I'm using open source HTML5 video player http://mediaelementjs.com/. Some visitors are viewing from Safari for iPhone. The iPhone 4 supports video playback only up to 720p, so if I make my videos…
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Detect screen size and pixel density on the server-side?
I've been doing some research and I think I know the answer already, but I'm wondering if there's any means by which you can get a device's screen size and pixel density without the use of javascript or relying on CSS3 media queries.
Essentially,…
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Meteor device detection android or ios?
I have an meteor app that is deployed for both ios and android device and i want certain code to run on only ios device and not on android. I know that I can detect device using meteor device-detection package like
Meteor.Device.isPhone()
But is…
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Detect phone/tablet/web client using javascript
I am trying to detect if the end user is on a phone, a tablet or a pc
I have been Googling for a while, apparently there are no easy solution.
Well I guess I should not use Resolution, since nowadays some tablets have amazing resolutions.
I should…
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Php mobile/tablet/desktop detect?
How to detect with php, if the user use a desktop, mobile or a tablet?
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