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k0lpak
k0lpak

Reputation: 553

How to detect mobile(not tablet) requests?

How can I detect mobile devices(but not tablets) requests in ASP.NET MVC application?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3451

Answers (2)

mnsr
mnsr

Reputation: 12437

As the other bloke said, you can use Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice

Either in your controller or in your layout page

Razor. You can do this in the layout page and it'll change depending on device e.g.

@if (Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice) {

}

Controller for an individual View e.g.

public ActionResult Index()
{
    if (Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice)
         return View("Index.Mobile");
    else
         return View();      
}

An alternative is to use this API called 51Degrees.mobi. I personally haven't used it, but it looks pretty good and very complete: http://51degrees.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=MVC

Also, this has some more information on the subject of mobile detection. http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/add-mobile-pages-to-your-aspnet-web-forms-mvc-application

Upvotes: 0

Aravind.HU
Aravind.HU

Reputation: 9472

In ASP.NET, you can easily detect the mobile device request using Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice property and Request.UserAgent.

The following code checks the IsMobileDevice property and redirects to the mobile specific page: 

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice)
    {
        Response.Redirec("~/default_mobile.aspx");          
    }
}

If you request "default.aspx" from mobile browser, it will redirect to default_mobile.aspx page

Read here where they explain in detail

Some times this may not work for some tablets

For that you have to use Request.Browser.ScreenPixelsWidth and validate against values of various screen sizes to achieve this . I think that will be the only way left to do it in the server side

If you want to trust client side javascript . There are varous scripts available to do that .

Check this Detect Mobile Browsers which may also help you .

Upvotes: 2

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