Detect mobile, tablet or Desktop on Django

Question

I need to detect 3 types of device: tablet, mobile or desktop.

I found a script for detecting mobile on github, but how I can detect mobile, tablet and desktop?

Answer 1

Based on your prior use of mobile detection middleware, I'd recommend the following:

Pick up the Python port of MobileESP (source code here) and drop it into a folder named mobileesp in the base of your project (where manage.py is). Throw in a blank __init__.py file so that Python will see it as a package.

Go ahead and create a new file, middleware.py, in that directory, and fill it with:

import re
from mobileesp import mdetect

class MobileDetectionMiddleware(object):
    """
    Useful middleware to detect if the user is
    on a mobile device.
    """
    def process_request(self, request):
        is_mobile = False
        is_tablet = False
        is_phone = False

        user_agent = request.META.get("HTTP_USER_AGENT")
        http_accept = request.META.get("HTTP_ACCEPT")
        if user_agent and http_accept:
            agent = mdetect.UAgentInfo(userAgent=user_agent, httpAccept=http_accept)
            is_tablet = agent.detectTierTablet()
            is_phone = agent.detectTierIphone()
            is_mobile = is_tablet or is_phone or agent.detectMobileQuick()

        request.is_mobile = is_mobile
        request.is_tablet = is_tablet
        request.is_phone = is_phone

Lastly, make sure to include 'mobileesp.middleware.MobileDetectionMiddleware', in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in your settings file.

With that in place, in your views (or anywhere that you have a request object) you can check for is_phone (for any modern smartphones), is_tablet (for modern tablets) or is_mobile (for any mobile devices whatsoever).

Answer 2

Have a look at MobileESP. It has been recently ported to Python for Django web app framework. It can detect various classes and tiers of devices (including smatphones, tablets).

Answer 3

If you want some quick and simple solution, you can try handset detection's javascript that enables you create simple redirection rules.