If you're just trying to determine if it's mobile and nothing else -- grepping the HTTP_USER_AGENT for "Mobile" and "Blackberry" will catch most smart phones (iPhones, Androids, Blackberrys). Grepping for about 10 patterns of manufacture names should get you to 99%. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_user_agents_for_mobile_phones
Granted not the most bullet proof and permanent solution -- but definitely fast, light, and easy. On Aug 23, 5:54 pm, prgmratlarge <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course I can see the user agent. The problem is figuring out > whether it's mobile. I tried, for example, using something like > browscap but it uses way too many resources for what it does. So I was > wondering if there was a better/simpler way to do it > > On Aug 23, 3:10 pm, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Can you use the user-agent? > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:12 PM, prgmratlarge <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Need a quick and easy way to detect mobile phones from my app, that > > > won't add too much performance overhead. Any suggestions? > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Google App Engine" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-appengine%2Bunsubscrib > > > [email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > -- > > Ikai Lan > > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > > Blog:http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/app_engine > > Reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" 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/google-appengine?hl=en.
