Check if ionic app is in dev serve mode(browser)

Question

I use ionic serve to run my app on localhost.

how can I know when I'm in browser and not in android?

I tried:

navigator.platform // MacIntel navigator.platforms // undefined ionic.Platform.is('BROWSER') // false navigator.userAgent // ...iPhone... => i'm in chrome device mode 

Thank you!

Answer 1

There's probably more than one way to do it, but a simple one is that cordova will only be defined on Android/iOS so you could do

if (window.cordova) {   // running on device/emulator } else {   // running in dev mode } 

Edit

Some text editors and TypeScript parsers may complain that Property 'cordova' does not exist on type 'Window'. In order to work around that, you can use the following:

if ((<any>window).cordova) {   // running on device/emulator } else {   // running in dev mode } 

By explicitly casting to type any you can avoid transpiler errors, and still accomplish what you're trying to do.

Answer 2

I found I can use

ionic.Platform.platforms[0] == "browser" 

to check if the application is running in a browser or not.

Important thing, ionic.Platform.platforms is set only after $ionicPlatform.ready event is fired.