Detect if running inside PhoneGap/ Cordova

cordova, detect, native

Solution

In local file and mobile website deviceready won't fire as it is a PhoneGap specific event. so u can set your IsRunningOnPhoneGap flag in the device ready event.

Problem

There has been a few questions how to detect an HTML page is running inside a device as a phonegap application. Most of the solutions (here and here) have been - Detect if browser agent is iPhone/iPad/Android/Blackberry - Use 'deviceready' event to detect if running inside a device. - Use URL to detect whether protocol is HTTP or FILE Are there any other solutions? All 3 won't work for me since I run the development HTML files locally before compiling the app, as a result it will detect 1). and 2). will fire and 3). is indeed FILE protocol.

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