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

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{

NSDictionary *dictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36", @"UserAgent", nil];
 [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] registerDefaults:dictionary];

}

Answer 2

just add this to user agent you can update the versions in future, I used is as google login was giving me issue

userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; Android SDK built for x86 Build/LMY48X) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/81.0.4044.117 Mobile Safari/608.2.11"

Answer 3

This is a terrible idea. Just use a custom header:

X-MY-CUSTOM-HEADER = MyAppName.