How to detect the stock Android browser

Question

Navigating to http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ shows me my stock Android browser on my Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.1 has the user agent

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_         


        

Answer 1

You must remove SamsungBrowser from your regexp.

For SamSungBrowser, you can use SamsungBrowser/([0-9]*.[0-9]*) or Android.*SAMSUNG.*Version/([0-9]*.[0-9]*) for old browser

http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000203

Answer 2

I think you are searching for this:

Android native browser not updated above version 534.30 so you can filter to the version and Android UA string combination (above we can presume its a Chrome browser)

Here's my sample JavaScript code:

(If you need specific styling I would add a class to the body with the following JS snippet)

var defectAndroid = $window.navigator && $window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf('534.30') > 0 && $window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().match(/android/);

if (defectAndroid) {
   // sample code specific for your Android Stock browser
}

(Some Android devices reporting 'android' that's why we need the lower case conversation)

Answer 3

efusien's answer (Nov 11 '13 at 20:18) works for me, although a variable hasn't been declared, and a comma was used in one spot instead of a semicolon, which results in a big fail for anyone looking for a copy/paste answer.

The following is what worked for me, including a practical example using an "if it's the native browser" condition:

var navU = navigator.userAgent;
// Android Mobile
var isAndroidMobile = navU.indexOf('Android') > -1 && navU.indexOf('Mozilla/5.0') > -1 && navU.indexOf('AppleWebKit') > -1;
// Android Browser (not Chrome)
var regExAppleWebKit = new RegExp(/AppleWebKit\/([\d.]+)/);
var resultAppleWebKitRegEx = regExAppleWebKit.exec(navU);
var appleWebKitVersion = (resultAppleWebKitRegEx === null ? null : parseFloat(regExAppleWebKit.exec(navU)[1]));
var isAndroidBrowser = isAndroidMobile && appleWebKitVersion !== null && appleWebKitVersion < 537;

$(window).load(function() {
    if (isAndroidBrowser) {
        // It's Android's native browser (and not Chrome), so do something
    }
});

Answer 4

If JavaScript instead of server-side UA sniffing is an option for you, try (!!window.chrome) && (!window.chrome.app). I can't guarantee, however, that this one is "safe", will work "forever", or something like that. Consider it an evil hack to be used for testing purposes only.

Explanation: Chrome (or Chromium?) Browsers (well, the ones I tested here, which were Chrome and Android stock on Cyanogenmod 10) have an object named window.chrome, but on the Android stock browser, the one I tested at least, this object does not have the app property.

Edit: Seems like older Chrome versions will give false positives with this solution. In turn, newer versions of the stock browser will most likely give "false negatives".

Answer 5

Your'e not getting android in the UA because you're using Desktop View. There's seemingly no way to identify that this is a mobile device in that mode. Once you'll switch to normal view you'll see the right UA.

Answer 6

var navU = navigator.userAgent;

// Android Mobile
var isAndroidMobile = navU.indexOf('Android') > -1 && navU.indexOf('Mozilla/5.0') > -1 && navU.indexOf('AppleWebKit') > -1;

// Apple webkit
var regExAppleWebKit = new RegExp(/AppleWebKit\/([\d.]+)/);
var resultAppleWebKitRegEx = regExAppleWebKit.exec(navU);
var appleWebKitVersion = (resultAppleWebKitRegEx === null ? null : parseFloat(regExAppleWebKit.exec(navU)[1]));

// Chrome
var regExChrome = new RegExp(/Chrome\/([\d.]+)/);
var resultChromeRegEx = regExChrome.exec(navU);
var chromeVersion = (resultChromeRegEx === null ? null : parseFloat(regExChrome.exec(navU)[1]));

// Native Android Browser
var isAndroidBrowser = isAndroidMobile && (appleWebKitVersion !== null && appleWebKitVersion < 537) || (chromeVersion !== null && chromeVersion < 37);