PhoneGap: Detect if running on desktop browser

Question

I\'m developing a web application that uses PhoneGap:Build for a mobile version and want to have a single codebase for the \'desktop\' and mobile versions. I want to be able

Answer 1

The most trustable way we found to tell if we are in a cordova/phonegap application is to modify the cordova application's user agent using this config AppendUserAgent.

In config.xml add:

Then call:

var isCordova = navigator.userAgent.match(/Cordova/i))

Why?

1. window.cordova and document.addEventListener('deviceready', function(){}); are subject to racing conditions
2. navigator.standalone does not work when is a website (Ex: or with cordova-plugin-remote-injection)
3. Trying to whitelist user agents to guess if it is a real browser is very complicated. Android browsers are often custom webviews.