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How to detect desktop browser vs mobile device using wurfl?

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You have to use those capabilities:

if(is_wireless_device=false and device_claims_web_support=true) {
the request is from web browser
}

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fravelgue 2010-04-13 14:58:45

If I use the code you propose I will need something like this: getDeviceForRequest(WURFLRequest request); to get the Device object, and then get and check these two capabilities.I was trying to find a high level method in the wurfl api. The function isMobileBrowser(String userAgent) from net.sourceforge.wurfl.core.utils seems the appropriate but having checked the source code, I found it does not do what I expected.

yeforriak 2010-04-13 15:24:13

Sry, i have changed my answer. Yes you have to use those capabilities.

fravelgue 2010-04-13 15:25:51

Any idea why the method isMobileBrowser(String userAgent) is there?. Here you can find the javadoc: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/njava/javadocs/net/sourceforge/wurfl/core/utils/UserAgentUtils.html#isMobileBrowser(java.lang.String) . I am a bit confused about this method.

yeforriak 2010-04-13 15:34:34

Sry, but i don´t know why, so it is a internal method. Googling i found msie uses Table for Tablet PC: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/msie-history.html

fravelgue 2010-04-13 19:59:51

I asked the same question in the wml programming group and I found all the answers I needed :).http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wmlprogramming/message/32344

yeforriak 2010-04-14 11:54:35

yes, i saw :-). Welcome to best mobile web community.

fravelgue 2010-04-14 13:19:21

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