Android, webview user agent vs browser user agent

android android-webview user-agent
a fair player picture a fair player · Oct 4, 2012 · Viewed 62.6k times · Source

I'm building my website and I want to know whether the user is using Android's browser or an app with a webview.

is it possible ??

Answer

Miguel Andres picture Miguel Andres · Mar 11, 2015

As per Chrome dev docs: "If you’re attempting to differentiate between the WebView and Chrome for Android, you should look for the presence of the Version/X.X string in the WebView user-agent string."

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