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Android Browser

• Developer: Google
• Development Status: Discontinued
• Released: 2008
• Platforms: Android
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: WebKit

Overview

Android Browser was the stock web browser included with early Android releases.

Related Browsers

UAParser.js detects these related browser products and projects separately:

Browser	Description
Chrome	The standard desktop version of Chrome.
Chrome Mobile	Chrome's standalone browser for Android and iOS.
Chrome WebView	A browser component for showing web content inside Android apps.
Chrome Headless	Chrome without a graphical interface, commonly used for automation.
Chromium	The open-source browser project behind Chrome.
Android Browser	The stock browser included with early Android releases.

History

Android Browser came with early open-source Android releases. Google made Mobile Chrome the standard browser on the Nexus 7 in 2012, but other manufacturers kept using Android Browser or their own browsers, so the change did not happen everywhere at once.

User-Agent Examples

Android

# Android Browser on Galaxy Nexus
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.2; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/ICL53F) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30

# Android Browser on Galaxy S3
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.4; en-us; SAMSUNG GT-I9300I Build/KTU84P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/1.5 Chrome/28.0.1500.94 Mobile Safari/537.36

# Android Browser on HTC Flyer (P510E)
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.2.1; ru-ru; HTC Flyer P510e Build/HTK75C) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13

# Android Browser on Huawei Honor Glory II (U9508)
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; ru-by; HUAWEI U9508 Build/HuaweiU9508) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30 ACHEETAHI/2100050044

#Android Browser on Huawei P8 (H891L)
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.4; HUAWEI H891L Build/HuaweiH891L) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/33.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

# Android Browser on Samsung S6 (SM-G925F)
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0.2; SAMSUNG SM-G925F Build/LRX22G) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/3.0 Chrome/38.0.2125.102 Mobile Safari/537.36

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.2; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/ICL53F) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Android Browser", version: "4.0", major: "4"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.ANDROID));
// true