Thread: Aura Install Android apps through built-in browser?
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Old 07-04-2017, 02:30 AM   #2
davidfor
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Sorry, not going to work. The Kobo devices do not run any form of Android. So, no Android application will be installable on it. If you tap a link to a package, it will probably just refresh the screen and not download anything.

And for the record, the user agent sent by the browser is:

Code:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.0; en-us;) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/538.1 (Kobo Touch 0370/4.4.9344)
I have no idea why this includes "Android 2.0" in it.

The above is from my Aura H2O running the latest firmware available to it. All the devices report themselves as a "Kobo Touch". But, you can tell them apart by the next number ("0370" means Aura H2O). The last bit, "4.4.9344", is the firmware version. I'd be pretty sure that only the calibre server looks for any identifiers for the Kobo device browser, and it is only looking for "Kobo Touch".
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