Can selenium driver detect which platform it is running in

Question

I need to verify that a certain condition happens on different platforms, e.g. a link of an app for iphone only happens on ios devices, and similarly, a link of an app for android only happens on android devices.

My question is if there is a way for selenium driver to detect which platform it is on so I can run a test something similar to:

if (driver == ios) {
    do something...
} else if (driver == android) {
    do something...
}

Answer 1

I figured out the solution:

DesiredCapabilities capability;
if (capability.getPlatform().is(Platform.ANDROID)) {
    // do something...
} else if (capability.getPlatform().is(Platform.MAC) {
    // do something...
}

Answer 2

I think you can do this using the capability.setPlatform() key/value pair from DesiredCapabilities of Selenium. You can read about the official documentation here.

Answer 3

To determine the OS of mobile operating system you can use javascript.

Following is the javascript to detect android phone

function isAndriod() { 
 if( navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i) {
 return true;
} else {
  return false;
}

And following is the javascript to detect the IOS devices

function isIOS() { 
 if(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i) || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) || navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) {
 return true;
} else {
  return false;
}

You can execute this javascripts using JavascriptExecutor of selenium and based on return value you can perform your future operations.