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Kulai
Kulai

Reputation: 640

Prevent Android wrapper to website

Our website is mobile ready and provides service to end uses. Someone has developed a wrapper application around the website and published on playstore. I checked the web request header from this wrapper application and from mobile browser and they are identical.

Is there any other way to differentiate if the request is from webview of native application or mobile browser?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 198

Answers (2)

GreyBeardedGeek
GreyBeardedGeek

Reputation: 30088

Unfortunately for your case, a WebView is indistinguishable from the default mobile browser. So I believe that you have a legal problem here, not a technical one.

As @Daniel says, you may want to appeal to Google to have the app removed from the Play Store.

Since there seems to be some market out there for a native version, perhaps you should look at providing your own. If you provide some extra added value in a native app, there would be less incentive for someone else to wrap your web app.

Upvotes: 2

Crossle Song
Crossle Song

Reputation: 10174

you can according to User-Agent， of course, you can custom User-Agent

Upvotes: 0

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