ngx-device-detector

An Angular 6+ powered AOT compatible device detector that helps to identify browser, os and other useful information regarding the device using the app. The processing is based on user-agent. This library was built at KoderLabs, which is one of the best places I've worked at ❤️

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If you use Angular 5, you must use v1.5.2 or earlier

## DOCS [Ngx Device Detector DOCS](https://ahsanayaz.github.io/ngx-device-detector) ## Live DEMO [Regular Demo](https://ahsanayaz.github.io/ngx-device-detector/demo) ## Dependencies Latest version available for each version of Angular | ngx-device-detector | Angular | |---------------------|---------| | 1.3.3 | 7.x | | 1.3.5 | 8.x | | 1.4.1 | 9.x | | 1.4.5 | 10.x | | 2.0.5 | 11.x | | 2.1.0 | 12.x | | 3.x.x | 13.x | | 4.x.x | 14.x | | 5.x.x | 15.x | | 6.x.x | 16.x | | 7.x.x | 17.x | ## Installation To install this library, run: ```bash $ npm install ngx-device-detector --save ``` In your component where you want to use the Device Service ```typescript import { Component } from '@angular/core'; ... import { DeviceDetectorService } from 'ngx-device-detector'; ... @Component({ selector: 'home', // styleUrls: [ './home.component.scss' ], templateUrl: './home.component.html', ... }) export class HomeComponent { deviceInfo = null; ... constructor(..., private http: Http, private deviceService: DeviceDetectorService) { this.epicFunction(); } ... epicFunction() { console.log('hello `Home` component'); this.deviceInfo = this.deviceService.getDeviceInfo(); const isMobile = this.deviceService.isMobile(); const isTablet = this.deviceService.isTablet(); const isDesktopDevice = this.deviceService.isDesktop(); console.log(this.deviceInfo); console.log(isMobile); // returns if the device is a mobile device (android / iPhone / windows-phone etc) console.log(isTablet); // returns if the device us a tablet (iPad etc) console.log(isDesktopDevice); // returns if the app is running on a Desktop browser. } ... } ``` For SSR, you have to make sure that the User Agent is available for device detection. I.e. you'll need to provide it manually. If using ExpressJS for example: **express.tokens.ts** ```typescript import { InjectionToken } from '@angular/core'; import { Request, Response } from 'express'; export const REQUEST = new InjectionToken('REQUEST'); export const RESPONSE = new InjectionToken('RESPONSE'); ``` **universal-device-detector.service.ts:** ```typescript import { Inject, Injectable, Optional, PLATFORM_ID } from '@angular/core'; import { REQUEST } from 'path/to/express.tokens'; import { Request } from 'express'; import { DeviceDetectorService } from 'ngx-device-detector'; import { isPlatformServer } from '@angular/common'; @Injectable() export class UniversalDeviceDetectorService extends DeviceDetectorService { constructor(@Inject(PLATFORM_ID) platformId: any, @Optional() @Inject(REQUEST) request: Request) { super(platformId); if (isPlatformServer(platformId)) { super.setDeviceInfo((request.headers['user-agent'] as string) || ''); } } } ``` **app.server.module.ts:** ```typescript { provide: DeviceDetectorService, useClass: UniversalDeviceDetectorService }, ``` ## Device service Holds the following properties - browser - os - device - userAgent - os_version ## Helper Methods - **isMobile() :** returns if the device is a mobile device (android / iPhone/ windows-phone etc) - **isTablet() :** returns if the device us a tablet (iPad etc) - **isDesktop() :** returns if the app is running on a Desktop browser. ## Development To generate all `*.js`, `*.js.map` and `*.d.ts` files: ```bash $ npm run tsc ``` To lint all `*.ts` files: ```bash $ npm run lint ``` To run unit tests ```bash $ npm run test ``` To build the library ```bash $ npm run build ``` ## Run the DEMO Make sure you have @angular/cli installed ```bash $ npm install -g @angular/cli ``` ```bash $ cd demo $ npm install $ ng serve ``` the demo will be up at `localhost:4200` ## Change Log Please see [CHANGE_LOG.MD](CHANGE_LOG.MD) for the updates. ## Credits The library is inspired by and based on the work from [ng-device-detector ](https://github.com/srfrnk/ng-device-detector). Also used a typescript wrapper of the amazing work in [ReTree](https://github.com/srfrnk/re-tree) for regex based needs and an Angular2 Library Creator boilerplate to get the work started fast. I.e. [Generator Angular2 library](https://github.com/jvandemo/generator-angular2-library). ## License [MIT](https://github.com/AhsanAyaz/ngx-device-detector/blob/master/LICENSE) ## Sponsorship If you like the library and want to support, you can do it by buying me a coffee at

	Stars	Issues	Version	Updated	Created
device-detect	3	2	1.0.7	9 years ago	9 years ago
mobile-detect	4,078	13	1.4.5	3 years ago	11 years ago
ngx-device-detector	507	30	7.0.0	5 months ago	6 years ago
ngx-responsive			9.0.3	4 years ago	6 years ago

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