That's exactly the point why I try to store ApplicationContexts, but those don't work in this case.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Matt Kanninen <[email protected]> wrote: > So many things require a context I'm just in the habit at this point > of passing the Context around everywhere. You can get in trouble if > you try to preserve a reference to a context past it's lifetime > though. > > On Dec 15, 10:59 am, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am downloading web pages off of the internet and some of those sites > > want to format their content for the actual user agent used. > > > > I want to use the user agent that is later on used to display the stuff > I > > donwnload. > > > > I can ask WebView.getWebSettings().getUserAgentString() to get the user > > agent, but this doesn't work all that well for my app as I need to > > instantiate a WebView first even though I don't need. Furthermore to do > that > > I need to have a UI context, which I don't as this part of the app > doesn't > > have a UI. > > > > Is there another way to get to the User Agent? > > > > I found in WebSettings: > > > > // User agent strings. > > private static final String DESKTOP_USERAGENT = > > "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en)" > > + " AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2" > > + " Safari/525.20.1"; > > private static final String IPHONE_USERAGENT = > > "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone 2_1 like Mac OS X; en)" > > + " AppleWebKit/528.5+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2" > > + " Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20.1"; > > > > But of course, this is private. Any other idea? > > > > Cheers, > > Mariano > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
