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 way I'm doing it with is using a global variable that is overwritten by a browser-only version of cordova.js. In your main html file (usually index.html) I have the following scripts that are order-dependent:

And inside cordova.js I have simply:

__cordovaRunningOnBrowser__ = true

When building for a mobile device, the cordova.js will not be used (and instead the platform-specific cordova.js file will be used), so this method has the benefit of being 100% correct regardless of protocols, userAgents, or library variables (which may change). There may be other things I should include in cordova.js, but I don't know what they are yet.