How can I detect if the app is accessed from mobile?

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#1

Hi,

I want to make the divs of my views to take 100% width for mobile
browsers and something else for "pc".

How can I detect that? Any hints?

Thanks!

#2

Use JavaScript to detect browser type.

Google
   detect browser agent
   detect mobile browser agent

-- gw

#3

I want to make the divs of my views to take 100% width for mobile
browsers and something else for "pc".

How can I detect that? Any hints?

Use JavaScript to detect browser type.

athough of course javascript and css manipulation on some mobile
browsers can be extremely quirky.

Fred

#4

Sure. I've had pretty good luck in detecting all the big ones Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc. So, similar to the way most apps are tuned for IE/FF/and hopefully Safari, I focus on mobile looking at least decent on the more common platforms--and of course generally stick to some pretty basic layouts and attempts to use markup to start with (looks better, faster, etc).

-- gw

#5

How are the users accessing the app? if it is through http from their
mobile device, you could you use a service like handsetdetection.com

#6

Greg Willits wrote in post #692457:

I want to make the divs of my views to take 100% width for mobile
browsers and something else for "pc".

How can I detect that? Any hints?

Use JavaScript to detect browser type.

Google
   detect browser agent
   detect mobile browser agent

-- gw

CSS would be much, much simpler for this:

div {
  width: 80%;
}

@media handheld {
  div {
    width: 100%;
  }
}

#7

Take a look of this link:

http://www.arctickiwi.com/blog/mobile-enable-your-ruby-on-rails-site-for-small-screens