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How to detect programmatically if "Android App" is running in chrome book or in Android phone

Since Google has announced that chromebook also support "Android Application" so I also wanted to support my app on chromebook although it is running fine with few exception which I need to fix.

I want to write code in such a way that that is will execute only for chromebook and will not execute for android phones and tablet.

I have check with Chromebook documentation in android developer site, I didn't get any such API which tell that your app is running in chrome book environment.

Suggestion from ARC Beta documentation did not work:

If you need to check if your app is running on Chrome OS, look for chromium as the android.os.Build.BRAND and android.os.Build.MANUFACTURER.

Both return google on an ASUS Chromebook.

Solution

  • Finally I figure out a way to know if app in running in ARC:

    context.getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature("org.chromium.arc.device_management");