Change Django Templates Based on User-Agent

Question

I\'ve made a Django site, but I\'ve drank the Koolaid and I want to make an IPhone version. After putting much thought into I\'ve come up with two options:

Answer 1

A simple solution is to create a wrapper around django.shortcuts.render. I put mine in a utils library in the root of my application. The wrapper works by automatically rendering templates in either a "mobile" or "desktop" folder.

In utils.shortcuts:

from django.shortcuts import render
from user_agents import parse

def my_render(request, *args, **kwargs):
  """
  An extension of django.shortcuts.render.

  Appends 'mobile/' or 'desktop/' to a given template location
  to render the appropriate template for mobile or desktop

  depends on user_agents python library
  https://github.com/selwin/python-user-agents

  """
  template_location = args[0]
  args_list = list(args)

  ua_string = request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
  user_agent = parse(ua_string)

  if user_agent.is_mobile:
      args_list[0] = 'mobile/' + template_location
      args = tuple(args_list)
      return render(request, *args, **kwargs)
  else:
      args_list[0] = 'desktop/' + template_location
      args = tuple(args_list)
      return render(request, *args, **kwargs)

In view:

from utils.shortcuts import my_render

def home(request):    return my_render(request, 'home.html')