Android Phone Or Android Tablet Detection By Http Headers

Is there a way to detect whether user is accessing your website from android powered tablet or phone on the server side? I don't own any android devices, so it's not possible for m

Solution 1:

They mentioned this on the developer blog when tablets first came out:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-browser-user-agent-issues.html

The only difference is that "Mobile" is removed from the user agent.

Edit: These are the user agents for the Galaxy Tab and Flyer

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.1; en-us; GT-P7510 Build/HMJ37) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.2.1; en-gb; HTC Flyer P510e Build/HTK75C) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13

Solution 2:

WURFL should do what you want.

Solution 3:

If you don't want to load the whole device db but still want more reliable matching, WURFL has a cloud product now (and it has a free offering that may be suitable for your needs):

http://www.scientiamobile.com/cloud