Android stock browser check

[lucbloom]

This is a class-static function of Phaser.Device to check wether we’re
running on an Android Stock browser. Autors might want to scale down on
effects and switch to the CANVAS rendering method on those devices.
Usage: var defaultRenderingMode = Phaser.Device.isAndroidStockBrowser()
? Phaser.CANVAS : Phaser.AUTO;

[photonstorm]

Is there a stock browser that even supports WebGL?! Surely they all default to Canvas automatically? Could be useful for determining resolution / effects though.

[lucbloom]

The problem is: they report they do, and they have the API calls, but they don't support it very well. I'm having problems with the device "GALAXY Tab3 10.1 Wi-Fi P5210 Android". It renders fine (but slow) in Canvas, but when rendering WebGL, it shows black screens. Some things underneath a SpriteBatch group does display (smoothly) but the rest is rendered in black. The alpha is still transparant though, so it looks like a multiply with [0,0,0] RGB.

I read your article (which was super MVP of you) about the problems with the Samsung S3. Ironically, I was searching in google for a way to open the console on that tablet, to see what JavaScript errors there were (none). Your article was the first place that mentioned about:debug (horrible Samsung method).

I tried some things, like overriding game.add.* with custom functions to make everything an image, a sprite, or making every group a SpriteBatch (or everything a normal group), especially turning Text-s into Sprites (showing nothing :-) because you said there were troubles with overlaying WebGL with Canvas objects. Now I'm thinking of it, I have one Graphics object. Could that be causing this?

Switching off "OpenGL rendering" didn't work for me, but switching off "WebGL" did. So that is why I created this utility function.

[lucbloom]

These are the days I hate the open-ness of Android :-(

[photonstorm]

I hate Android most days.

[photonstorm]

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