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The
device
object describes the device's hardware and software.
Since device
is assigned to the window
object, it is implicitly in the global scope.
// These reference the same `device` var phoneModel = window.device.model; var phoneModel = device.model;
As of version 3.0, Cordova implements device-level APIs as plugins. Use the CLI's plugin
command, described in The Command-Line Interface, to add or remove this feature for a project:
$ cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.device $ cordova plugin ls [ 'org.apache.cordova.device' ] $ cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.device
These commands apply to all targeted platforms, but modify the platform-specific configuration settings described below:
Amazon Fire OS
(in app/res/xml/config.xml) <feature name="Device"> <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.device.Device" /> </feature>
Android
(in app/res/xml/config.xml) <feature name="Device"> <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.device.Device" /> </feature>
BlackBerry 10
(in www/config.xml) <feature name="Device" value="Device"/> <rim:permissions> <rim:permit>read_device_identifying_information</rim:permit> </rim:permissions>
Windows Phone (in Properties/WPAppManifest.xml
)
<Capabilities> <Capability Name="ID_CAP_WEBBROWSERCOMPONENT" /> <Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_DEVICE" /> <Capability Name="ID_CAP_IDENTITY_USER" /> </Capabilities>
Reference: Application Manifest for Windows Phone
Tizen (in config.xml
)
<feature name="http://tizen.org/api/systeminfo" required="true"/>
Some platforms may support this feature without requiring any special configuration. See Platform Support for an overview.