Question

I’m currently making an android application for a forum, basically it just loads the website in a webview and that works fine and all, but I’m trying to add an option to view the full site or the mobile site.

I got it working by just making a boolean BrowserType which when set to true, loads the mobile site in the webview, and when set to false, loads the full page. I already have it working and everything, the full site loads and I jsut have the user agent as “Chrome”, and I set the mobile user agent to “Mobile”, but that doesn’t work, what am I supposed to use as the user agent for mobile? Just for reference, this is the method I’m using:

myWebView.getSettings().setUserAgentString("Chrome");

Then for the mobile one instead of “Chrome”, I used “Mobile”. What is the correct user agent for mobile?

Answer 1

This is an example of user agent for android:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-gb; Nexus One Build/FRF50)
AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

And you can use simply:

myWebView.getSettings().setUserAgentString("Android");