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From: Philipp Kursawe <phil.kursawe@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:07:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Discuss] Why was device.name removed from the device-plugin?
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To further emphasize one point. I fully agree with moving from device.name
to device.model + device.manufacturer + device.platform.
But I still ask all of you do consider bringing back a proper device.name.
As I wrote, on Windows its pretty easy to get the real name of the
PC/Phone. On iOS and Android the work is already done.

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Philipp Kursawe <phil.kursawe@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for pointing this out. However the name is not used to reference
> the device to the API. Thats what the device.uuid is being used for. The
> device name is used in the UI where the user can see its API enabled
> devices. You don't want to show the user the device id there (cause she has
> no point of reference to which physical device it belongs) but the name she
> gave her phone and knows her phone when she connects it to itunes, iphoto
> etc.
>
> So the reason to introduce the name property back is exactly the one you
> mentioned: The user can always change the name of her phone and there knows
> its name and will recognize it in a list of devices.
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Shazron <shazron@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Philipp,
>> This was the rationale:
>>
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e3b0e5f87ba3929d5578308b25ee9a6af5b91177b94015878970fa8e@1352248856@%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E
>>
>> On iOS,  [UIDevice name] returns the name the user sets in iTunes for
>> their
>> device i.e. "Shazron's iPhone 4", and can change anytime so relying on it
>> for API access would be problematic.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:51 AM, Philipp Kursawe <phil.kursawe@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I wonder why such an important piece of information is not provided
>> anymore
>> > in the device plugin?
>> > What was the reason to remove the property?
>> >
>> > The name of the device, especially when users can authorise/revoke API
>> > access to apps on different devices, is an important variable to know.
>> >
>> > There is a plugin that brings back this functionality for Android, iOS
>> and
>> > for Windows it would be a one-liner only too.
>> > https://github.com/becvert/cordova-plugin-device-name
>> >
>>
>
>

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