Are you thinking about retrieving device information using Cordova (PhoneGap)? You found a solution. I have written a step by step tutorial for using cordova-plugin-device
I will explain how to get device information such as device uuid, model, platform, version. cordova version using PhoneGap / Apache Cordova device plugin.
What you’ll learn from this tutorial?
- What is device plugin do?
- How to get device information using PhoneGap device api?
- how to create PhoneGap application for getting device information?
Why device plugin ?
Device api is used to gather specific information about the device such as Cordova version, mobile model, platform information, device unique id (UUID). OS version
What are the properties of PhoneGap device plugin?
device.cordovareturns cordova versiondevice.modelreturns device model (E.g HTC 132)device.platformplatform information (E.g Android)device.uuidreturns phone unique id (1sd341sdr1)device.versionApp version
How to get device information using PhoneGap device plugin?
Create a new Cordova project & change your working directory
cd DeviceInfo
cordova platform add android
cordova platform add ios
Now add plugin for device plugin
Now Change your index.html code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.addEventListener("deviceready", function () {
var deviceinfo = "cordova:" + device.cordova + "<br>Model:" + device.model + "<br>UUID:" + device.uuid + "<br>Platform:" + device.platform + "(" + device.version + ")";
document.getElementById("deviceInfoText").innerHTML = deviceinfo;
}, false);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<p id="deviceInfoText"></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Output:
