How to detect if I am in browser (local development) in Ionic 2

Question

I want to make sure to launch inappbrowser only if I am on devices (iOs, Android...), but if I am in browser (local development mode or just a Web App with gulp build), I wa

Answer 1

I have faced the same problem in an Ionic 3 application and found here a nice method of checking if the application runs in a browser vs. real device/emulator:

isApp = !document.URL.startsWith('http');

Basically it relies on the fact that real devices or emulators serve resources using file protocol rather than http, as used by the browsers.