Differentiating from WebView mobile chrome and real Mobile Chrome

[lstrojny]

Original issue by @bwaters at ua-parser/uap-php#15:

Is there anyway for uap-php to tell the difference between WebView in an Android App and the Chrome Mobile browser. https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent

Looks like if it has a Version/x.x then it is webview ie..

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.4; SAMSUNG-SM-G870A Build/KTU84P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/33.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Vs a real chrome ua like this one:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.4; SAMSUNG-SM-G900A Build/KTU84P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36

[patmmccann]

Here is some related user agents for the FB App; shouldn't we just call the app the Browser?

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 8_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12H143 [FBAN/FBIOS;FBAV/35.0.0.34.220;FBBV/12945441;FBDV/iPad2,5;FBMD/iPad;FBSN/iPhone OS;FBSV/8.4;FBSS/1; FBCR/;FBID/tablet;FBLC/en_US;FBOP/1]

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; SCH-R970 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/30.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 [FB_IAB/FB4A;FBAV/38.0.0.47.240;]

[shaharmor]

Any chance to get this implemented?

According to this: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent#webview_user_agent
There is a difference in the UA, so we should be able to add it to this module so the browser will be shown as Chrome Mobile WebView when its a WebView and not the actual browser?

[meagerman]

Sorry to comment on such an old issue, but the issue reported by the OP was never addressed in the fix. The fix looks for "wv" in the user agent, but the OP reported a user agent that does not have this notation.

"wv" was only added in Lolipop. Prior to that, the "Version/x.x" is the correct marker to look for: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/user-agent#webview_user_agent