how to detect a mobile phone in a web application [closed]

Answer 1

Scott Hanselman did a podcast on a module device database that Microsoft made available on Codeplex. It's a .browser file that you put in your ASP.NET (version 2.0+) website, which then helps the framework define the Request.Browser property more closely. You should be able to get a lot of the information that you need from there.

However, that project is no longer supported, and when you're dealing with user agent detection, having an up-to-date resource is very important. You should probably use a similar project, such as 51degrees.mobi or WURFL.

Even without that, at the least you can check Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice.

Answer 2

You can check the User-Agent string. In JavaScript, that's really easy, it's just a property of the navigator object.

var useragent = navigator.userAgent;

You can check if the device if iPhone or Blackberry in JS with something like

var isIphone = !!agent.match(/iPhone/i),
    isBlackberry = !!agent.match(/blackberry/i);

if isIphone is true you are accessing the site from an Iphone, if isBlackBerry you are accessing the site from a Blackberry.

You can use "UserAgent Switcher" plugin for firefox to test that.

Answer 3

As preciously stated - user agent

BUT, do you really mean to ask "is it a mobile phone"? Or do you really mean something else?

Lines are blurring these days. I bought a nice little Android slate with 7" screen from eBay for $99. Is that a mobile phone? Is a mini-netbook with 6" screen? Is a Kidnle-like-device?

I'm just wondering why you want to know if it is a mobile 'phone ... screen size? processing power? something else?

You probably did mean mobile 'phone but, if not, please rephrase and we can help further.

Answer 4

Here is some information from a similar question:

Auto detect mobile browser (via user-agent?)

It involves reading the user-agent header. The answers to that other question include links for scripts for this.

Here is another helpful discussion:

Standard way to detect mobile browsers in a web application based on the http request

Answer 5

Please, check this out. Worked fine for me!

http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/

Answer 6

You could check their User-Agent string.