Setting WebView to view Desktop Site and Not Mobile Site

Question

I've done quite a lot of research on Stack Overflow and a lot of Google research but nothing I find is actually working out for me. I want the site to view the desktop site instead of the mobile site. How do I do this? I want it to directly go to the Desktop site.

WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);      myWebView.loadUrl("http://www.apotter96.webs.com/"); } 

Answer 1

Change the user agent of webview

 String newUA="Foo/"; // Change this to desired UA 

like

 String newUA= "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0";  mWebView.getSettings().setUserAgentString(newUA); 

Answer 2

This method helps you to set DesktopMode on webview

public void setDesktopMode(WebView webView,boolean enabled) {     String newUserAgent = webView.getSettings().getUserAgentString();     if (enabled) {         try {             String ua = webView.getSettings().getUserAgentString();             String androidOSString = webView.getSettings().getUserAgentString().substring(ua.indexOf("("), ua.indexOf(")") + 1);             newUserAgent = webView.getSettings().getUserAgentString().replace(androidOSString, "(X11; Linux x86_64)");         } catch (Exception e) {             e.printStackTrace();         }     } else {         newUserAgent = null;     }      webView.getSettings().setUserAgentString(newUserAgent);     webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(enabled);     webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(enabled);     webView.reload(); } 

Call it like that

Mobile mode : setDesktopMode(webView, false);

Desktop mode : setDesktopMode(webView, true);

For Kotlin:

fun setDesktopMode(webView: WebView, enabled: Boolean) {     var newUserAgent: String? = webView.settings.userAgentString     if (enabled) {         try {             val ua: String = webView.settings.userAgentString             val androidOSString: String = webView.settings.userAgentString.substring(                 ua.indexOf("("),                 ua.indexOf(")") + 1             )             newUserAgent = webView.settings.userAgentString.replace(androidOSString, "(X11; Linux x86_64)")         } catch (e: Exception) {             e.printStackTrace()         }     } else {         newUserAgent = null     }     webView.settings.apply {         userAgentString = newUserAgent         useWideViewPort = enabled         loadWithOverviewMode = enabled     }     webView.reload() }