Question

I am developing an app for tablets like samsung galaxy, moto xoom and kindle fire.

My webview is not loading the desktop version of urls which I am giving.

I tried by setting the user Agent, but I dont know whats the exact “ua string” will solve my issue. When I took log of ua string I got the following

Code :

String ua = m_webview.getSettings().getUserAgentString() ;
Log.i("AboutActivity", "UA = "+ua) ;

UA String:

UA = Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.1; en-US; GT-P7500 Build/HMJ37) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13

I read somewhere that I need to remove the “mobile” in the ua string but I didnt get “mobile” in the printed ua string.

I have tried the following ua string by adding desktop in it, even though its not coming

 String ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.1; en-US; GT-P7500 Build/HMJ37) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Desktop Safari/534.13";
 mWebview.getSettings().setUserAgentString(ua);

Answer 1

It might be that they know you are on a mobile phone because you have Android in the user agent. Try something more desktop browser looking such as:

String ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0";