Detect Android Devices/Phone using jQuery

Android and iPhone/iPad development is pretty hot and very much in demand. Below small piece of code will be useful to detect android devices (i.e. Android Phones & Android tablets) using jQuery.

$(document).ready(function(){   var isAndroid = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("android");   if(isAndroid > -1)   {       //It is an Android device. Redirect to Android Version.   }       });​ 

You can test this code by changing the user agent in your browser and set it to Android. There are many plugins/ extension available that allows to change User agent. Below is the link for various user agent switchers available with chrome and firefox.

• For Chrome
• For FireFox

Also read:

Detect Apple Devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod) using jQuery

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