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Is tablet a User-Agent?
The issue is that the Android User-Agent is a general User-Agent and there is no difference between tablet Android and mobile Android. This is incorrect. Mobile Android has “Mobile” string in the User-Agent header. Tablet Android does not.
Is User-Agent unique per device?
Every device type, including phones, tablets, desktops, may come with its own UA that makes it possible to detect this device for any purpose. Interestingly bots and crawlers also come with their unique UAs. If you’d like to learn more on these devices, just copy and paste the UAs to our User-Agent testing tool.
What is device User-Agent?
A User-Agent is a string of characters which contains information about your device. 51Degrees translates this string into a multitude of attributes specifically related to your device.
What is the User-Agent string for Android?
User Agent Strings
| User Agent | Example |
|---|---|
| Android WebView ( android.webkit.WebView ) | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.2.2; en-us; AFTB Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30 |
Is there such a thing as an Android userAgent?
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 a specific device like the Xoom Useragent since Android will most likely be on multiple tablet devices in the near future.
Is there a way to detect an Android tablet?
While you may still want to detect “android” in the User-Agent to implement Android-specific features, such as touch-screen optimizations, our main message is: Should your mobile site depends on UA sniffing, please detect the strings “mobile” and “android,” rather than just “android,” in the User-Agent.
Is there a difference between tablet and mobile Android?
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 a specific device like the Xoom Useragent since Android will most likely be on multiple tablet devices in the near future.
Are there any Android tablets with andorid 3?
But as there are currently only tablets with Andorid 3.x, checking on Android 3 would be enough.