Set user agent with WebView with react-native

Question

I want to modify the user agent string in a WebView so that on the server side I can detect that the request has come from my react-native app. I want to do this using the sourc

Answer 1

This library now provides a method to get the userAgent for both ios and android:

https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-device-info#getuseragent

this.state = { 
   userAgent: "",
}

componentDidMount = async () => {
   this.setState({ userAgent: await DeviceInfo.getUserAgent() })
}