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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?
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The User-Agent (UA) string is contained in the HTTP headers and is intended to identify devices requesting online content. The User-Agent tells the server what the visiting device is (among many other things) and this information can be used to determine what content to return.
Apps often use the same online resources as the web site like RESTful APIs, images or videos. Because these resources are shared, it is very important to correctly form User-Agents for mobile apps to identify who is using the resources.
Tap “User agent” at the top of the “Customize” sub-section of the “Advanced” tab. Select one of the four built-in user agents or tap “Custom” and enter your own value, then tap “OK” to save. Tip: There are no rules governing the value of the user agent, so feel free to enter any value you want.
Definition: A user agent is any software that retrieves, renders and facilitates end user interaction with Web content, or whose user interface is implemented using Web technologies.
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");
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
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