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Detect if running inside PhoneGap/ Cordova

There has been a few questions how to detect an HTML page is running inside a device as a phonegap application.

Most of the solutions (here and here) have been

  1. Detect if browser agent is iPhone/iPad/Android/Blackberry
  2. Use 'deviceready' event to detect if running inside a device.
  3. Use URL to detect whether protocol is HTTP or FILE

Are there any other solutions? All 3 won't work for me since I run the development HTML files locally before compiling the app, as a result it will detect 1). and 2). will fire and 3). is indeed FILE protocol.

Solution

  • In local file and mobile website deviceready won't fire as it is a PhoneGap specific event. so u can set your IsRunningOnPhoneGap flag in the device ready event.