Device plugin on PWA

[amrayoub]

Hi ,
I'm using Device plugin on PWA application ( angular 5 and Capacitor ) , when I build the app android or IOS , the device plugin works great and returns all the info about the device.
but when I build it on PWA and access the local host from chrome on mobile ,
that's what i get
{
"__zone_symbol__state": true,
"__zone_symbol__value": {
"model": "web",
"platform": "web",
"appVersion": "",
"osVersion": "",
"manufacturer": "",
"isVirtual": false,
"batteryLevel": 0.23,
"isCharging": true,
"uuid": "680cf9d1-60f9-421a-8f46-b52a2848c9e8"
}
}

as you can see , the osVersion and "manufacturer are empty and diskFree isn't available , also why the platform is web when I run it on chrome from mobile ??

Thanks

[mlynch]

What does your code look like? You should await Device.getInfo()

We will look into the fields

[amrayoub]

I used await Device.getInfo() along with async .
the plugin works great when I build and run for Android and IOS . it shows all the fields.
but when i build PWA and run the app on chrome android .
it shows many empty fields along with ""platform": "web", even though I run the app from android chrome browser

[IT-MikeS]

A pwa in a chrome web tab would not give android stats, if thats what you are looking to find?

[amrayoub]

i'm also looking for the "model" of the phone and the "manufacturer".

[IT-MikeS]

I don't think that information is exposed to a PWA is it? I could be wrong, @mlynch will most likely know.

[jlucfarias]

The informations: model, manufacturer and osVersion can be get using the userAgent from the browser

[amrayoub]

@John-Luke Great , I hope ionic Team can integrate it in Device Plugin

[amrayoub]

@mlynch Max , i found that , i think it might help to optimize the plugin and give it more feature
https://deviceatlas.com/blog/list-of-user-agent-strings

[IT-MikeS]

The below is a snip of my user agent on a real phone I use for testing, while model and osVersion are available the manufacturer may not be, or at least wont be easy to parse without external requests or a large add of device data to the plugin.

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; Moto G Play Build/NPIS26.48-36-5; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/65.0.3325.109 Mobile Safari/537.36

[jcesarmobile]

We have added model, osVersion and manufacturer to latest version.

Manufacturer returns navigator.vendor, which for Chrome in Android is "Google Inc." and not the phone manufacturer, the phone manufacturer is not exposed to the navigator object.

platform will return "pwa", as Capacitor available platforms are "android", "ios", "electron" and "pwa"

diskFree and some other things provided by the native implementations are not available on PWAs because they are not accessible, that's the point of iOS and Android platforms, to get things that are not possible on the web.

Closing the issue.