Platform • Angular Material

API reference for Angular CDK platform

import {PlatformModule} from '@angular/cdk/platform';

Service to detect the current platform by comparing the userAgent strings and checking browser-specific global properties.

Name	Description
`ANDROID: boolean`	Whether the current platform is Android.
`BLINK: boolean`	Whether the current rendering engine is Blink.
`EDGE: boolean`	Whether the current browser is Microsoft Edge.
`FIREFOX: boolean`	Whether the current browser is Firefox.
`IOS: boolean`	Whether the current platform is Apple iOS.
`SAFARI: boolean`	Whether the current browser is Safari.
`TRIDENT: boolean`	Whether the current rendering engine is Microsoft Trident.
`WEBKIT: boolean`	Whether the current rendering engine is WebKit.
`isBrowser: boolean`	Whether the Angular application is being rendered in the browser.

getSupportedInputTypes (): `Set<string>`
`Set<string>`	The input types supported by this browser.

getSupportedInputTypes (): Set<string>

Returns

Set<string>

The input types supported by this browser.

supportsPassiveEventListeners (): `boolean`
Checks whether the user's browser supports passive event listeners. See: https://github.com/WICG/EventListenerOptions/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md
Returns
`boolean`

normalizePassiveListenerOptions (options: `AddEventListenerOptions`): `AddEventListenerOptions \| boolean`
Normalizes an `AddEventListener` object to something that can be passed to `addEventListener` on any browser, no matter whether it supports the `options` parameter.
Parameters
options `AddEventListenerOptions`	Object to be normalized.
Returns
`AddEventListenerOptions \| boolean`

supportsScrollBehavior (): `boolean`
Check whether the browser supports scroll behaviors.
Returns
`boolean`

getRtlScrollAxisType (): `RtlScrollAxisType`
Checks the type of RTL scroll axis used by this browser. As of time of writing, Chrome is NORMAL, Firefox & Safari are NEGATED, and IE & Edge are INVERTED.
Returns
`RtlScrollAxisType`