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 the PhoneGap / Apache Cordova device plugin.
What you’ll learn from this tutorial?
- What is the device plugin do?
- How to get device information using the PhoneGap device API?
- how to create a PhoneGap application for getting device information?
Why the 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 the PhoneGap device plugin?
device.cordova
returns cordova versiondevice.model
returns device model (E.g HTC 132)device.platform
platform information (E.g Android)device.uuid
returns phone unique id (1sd341sdr1)device.version
App version
How to get device information using PhoneGap device plugin?
Create a new Cordova project & change your working directory
cordova create DeviceInfo com.codesundar.deviceinfo DeviceInfo
cd DeviceInfocordova platform add android
cordova platform add ios
Now add plugin for device plugin
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-device
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>