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Version: 1.0.2

is.android-phone

is.androidPhone(target: unknown)​

The is.androidPhone method returns a boolean value of true if the device accessing the application is an Android phone and false otherwise. This method uses the navigator.userAgent property to check the user agent string of the device and determine whether it is an Android phone.

Specification​

  • Target argument: optional.
  • Return: boolean.

Information​

  • Unit tests: ✅

Data used for examples

const userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; Pixel 4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.72 Mobile Safari/537.36';

Examples​

is.androidPhone() // true if the command is executed in a browser running on the androidPhone
is.androidPhone(userAgent) // true

// Alternative
IsConfig.state.userAgent = userAgent;
is.androidPhone() // true

is.androidPhone(769) // false
is.androidPhone(false) // false
is.androidPhone(new Boolean(0)) // false
is.androidPhone(new Boolean()) // false
is.androidPhone(0) // false
is.androidPhone('') // false
is.androidPhone({}) // false
is.androidPhone([]) // false
// And all other known types will return false

Reversal boolean result​

is.not.androidPhone() // false if the command is executed in a browser running on the androidPhone
is.not.androidPhone(userAgent) // false

// Alternative
IsConfig.state.userAgent = userAgent;
is.not.androidPhone() // false

is.androidPhone(769) // true
is.androidPhone(false) // true
is.androidPhone(new Boolean(0)) // true
is.androidPhone(new Boolean()) // true
is.androidPhone(0) // true
is.androidPhone('') // true
is.androidPhone({}) // true
is.androidPhone([]) // true
// And all other known types will return true