Detect between a mobile browser or a PhoneGap application

Question

Is it possible to detect if the user is accessing through the browser or application using JavaScript?

I\'m developing a hybrid application to several mobile OS thr

Answer 1

Ive ben struggling with this aswell, and i know this is an old thread, but i havent seen my approach anywhere, so thought id share incase itll help someone.

i set a custom useragent after the actual useragent :

String useragent = settings.getUserAgentString();
settings.setUserAgentString(useragent + ";phonegap");

that just adds the phonegap string so other sites relying on detecting your mobile useragent still works.

Then you can load phonegap like this:

if( /phonegap/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) 
{
//you are on a phonegap app, $getScript etc
} else {
alert("not phonegap");
}