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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Updating device detection code for Windows 8 mobile devices - phones and Surface X
I have used the attached code to detect mobile devices before but it is not working (for obvious reasons) for Windows 8 mobile phones and any of the Surface versions. I don't know the proper userAgent for Windows 8 mobile phones and Surface. What…
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How to detect mobile device
I am building a mobile site using the ionic framework. I want to detect mobile devices(Android and iOS) with AngularJS (or ionic).
If access device is Android → #/android
if access device is iOS → #/ios
controllers.js
function uaCtrl('$scope',…
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How to detect the current device and fire the correct event?
I am trying to detect the current device via jQuery Mobile and fire the correct event. So long so good...
The detection works fine but the hover/mouseover/vmouseover event will not work correctly (tap & click works fine)
JS:
(function(a) {
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How to add continue button if device is desktop else redirect page to start with desktop
I am developing a game website.This game only works on desktop.So i decide to know the device type of user.
So far i am able to detect the device type.
If the user is on mobile then redirect to a page saying start the game in your desktop or…
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What the difference between tablet and laptop with touch screen?
Tablets and laptops with touch-screen have "touch" support. So how we can to detect with help of javascript that it's a laptop but not a tablet?
P.S.: I don't need to detect touch device. I need to distinguish laptop with touch screen from a tablet.
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Which technique to hide right column with heavy content?
I'm building a mobile site for a great magazine with a lot of content that is partly heavily. The problem now is that I have to hide the entire right column on the mobile site (yes, I need it in this case).
I've done a great research on mobile…
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detecting cordova device on express.js server
Hi I'm new to Cordova aka PhoneGap.
I already made an express.js website and trying to build ios and android app using Cordova.
thus, there is one website.
and there are 3 way(ios app, android app and web browser) to approach that.
I want to figure…
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Parse apple-touch-icon from mobile websites
With a given url like www.example.com i want to extract the apple touch icon by e.g. searching the dom for this attribute:
The Problem is that example.com doesn't provide this tag on the…
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Servier side and client side device detection
We are having two module of same web application in Servlet/jsp. One for mobile and one for desktop. I want to redirect to mobile version whenever an handheld device hit a desktop version. Since I am having two different context of same application,…
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Detecting Mobile traffic on website
Ok here we go I will try to make this as clear as I can.
I have made a website that can be view very clearly with any phone, tablet and, computer; I am about to have an app. What I have been looking for with no luck whatsoever is how can I prompt…
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Redirect from mobile site to desktop site
I have device detection in place using the following code:
This code gets the name of the…
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Cross-platform C/C++ code to get details on connected iDevices?
I'm working a cross-platform tool written in C++ that will have the ability to detect the deviceid (i.e. iPhone7,1) and iOS version (i.e. 8.1.2) of connected devices, similar to how many jailbreak utilities do.
After looking around, I haven't been…
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