Android User Agent

Android, webview user agent vs browser user agent

FROM: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/03/mo-better-to-also-detect-mobile-user.html

With a User-Agent like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.0; en-us; Xoom Build/HRI39) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13

since there is no “mobile” string, serve this user the desktop version (or a version customized for Android large-screen touch devices). The User-Agent tells us they’re coming from a large-screen device, the XOOM tablet.

On the other hand, this User-Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; en-us; Nexus One Build/FRG83) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

contains “mobile” and “android,” so serve the web surfer on this Nexus One the mobile experience!

FROM https://stackoverflow.com/a/7327201

it looks like the User-Agent is the same in webview as in the default mobile browser

Android mobile user agent?

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");

android user agent

After much research, I figured it out. There is a way to set a user agent for Android WebView.

webview.getSettings().setUserAgentString("user-agent-string");

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebSettings.html

In HTTP user agent header of Android, what does the U mean?

U for strong security..................

http://www.useragentstring.com/Android%20Webkit%20Browser_id_18032.php

Security values:

N for no security
U for strong security
I for weak security

What does EdgeW mean in the Microsoft Edge useragent

we believe that this is an Edge WebView (this is just a guess so far)
https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector/issues/6636

What is the Android Firefox user agent string?

Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:41.0) Gecko/41.0 Firefox/41.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Android 11; Mobile; rv:86.0) Gecko/86.0 Firefox/86.0

The platform part of the UA string indicates if Firefox is running on a phone-sized or tablet device. When Firefox runs on a device that has the phone form factor, there is a Mobile; token in the platform part of the UA string.

When Firefox runs on a tablet device, there is a Tablet; token in the platform part of the UA string instead. For example:

Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Mobile; rv:41.0) Gecko/41.0 Firefox/41.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4; Tablet; rv:41.0) Gecko/41.0 Firefox/41.0

The version numbers are not relevant. Avoid inferring materials based
on these.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent/Firefox#Mobile_and_Tablet_indicators