device_profile 0.1.0

What the device is: the name a person knows it by (Redmi 9A, Galaxy XCover 5, iPhone 12 mini) instead of its hardware code, the kind of device, and whether its display is round.

device_profile

A Flutter plugin that tells what the device is, from one read of the platform: the name a person knows it by - "Redmi 9A", "Galaxy XCover 5", "iPhone 12 mini" - instead of the hardware code the platform reports as the model ("M2006C3LG", "SM-G525F", "iPhone"), the kind of device, and whether its display is round.

A list of signed-in devices - a sessions screen, a "too many devices" prompt - usually shows Build.MODEL or UIDevice.model. On many Android phones that is a code nobody recognizes, and on every iPhone it is just "iPhone", so a user with two of them cannot tell which one to sign out. No single field holds the real name on every phone: each maker keeps it somewhere else. This plugin knows where, reads it, and picks the best one.

Features

• The maker's own name - read where each maker keeps it: Samsung, Xiaomi/Redmi/POCO, OPPO, realme, OnePlus, Huawei, Honor, vivo, Lenovo, Motorola, Tecno/Infinix/itel, ZTE/nubia, HMD, Sony, Asus, LG and more.
• Never a wrong device - codes, placeholders and codenames are rejected; when nothing better is there, you get the brand and the code ("Samsung SM-G525F") and isMarketingName tells you so.
• The device kind - phone, tablet, foldable, watch, TV, car, desktop or headset, for the right icon.
• The shape of the display - round or rectangular, as Android's Configuration.isScreenRound reports it. A round Wear OS face and a square one are both a square window to Flutter; a watch layout that keeps clear of a round bezel needs to know which one it is on.
• The user's own name, only if you want it - "Anna's XCover 5" tells two Galaxies apart, but it can carry a person's name, so it is off unless you ask.
• Ready for a sessions list - fullName with the brand in front, a userAgentToken safe for a header, and distinctLabels for two devices that share a name.
• Offline and small - no network, no device database: only what the device itself carries, plus a table of Apple identifiers.
• No permissions, never throws.

Requirements

• Flutter 3.47 or later.
• Android 7.0 (API 24) or later, built with Android Gradle Plugin 8.13 or later.
• iOS 15 or later.

Installation

dependencies:
  device_profile: ^0.1.0

flutter pub get

Usage

import 'package:device_profile/device_profile.dart';

final device = await const PlatformDeviceProfile().read();

device?.name.name;            // "Galaxy Tab A7"
device?.name.fullName;        // "Samsung Galaxy Tab A7"
device?.name.isMarketingName; // true - false when only the brand and the code were left
device?.name.source;          // NameSource.factorySetting - where the name came from
device?.kind;                 // DeviceKind.tablet
device?.screenShape;          // ScreenShape.rectangular - ScreenShape.round on a round Wear OS face

read() returns null only on a platform it does not support (web, desktop) or when the platform could not be asked. The device is asked once; later calls answer from memory.

The name the user gave the device

const PlatformDeviceProfile(userAssignedName: UserAssignedName.preferred);

Mode	What you get on a renamed Galaxy XCover 5
never (default)	"Galaxy XCover 5"
fallback	the maker's name, and the user's name only where the maker's is missing
preferred	"Anna's XCover 5" - the user's name first; a phone never renamed still gets "Galaxy XCover 5"

On iOS an app cannot read the name the user gave the device, so every mode gives the model name.

A list of devices

// For a User-Agent header or any one-line field: no ; ( ), ASCII only.
device.name.userAgentToken; // "Lenovo Tab M8 [4th Gen]", "Ганна's M32" -> "%D0%93...'s M32"

// Two devices with one name:
distinctLabels([
  (name: 'Galaxy S24', detail: 'Android 15'),
  (name: 'Galaxy S24', detail: 'Android 14'),
]); // ["Galaxy S24 (Android 15)", "Galaxy S24 (Android 14)"]

Uri.decodeComponent turns a userAgentToken back into the name.

The same escaping is there for any other value that goes into the same header, such as the model you send when read() gave no name:

userAgentToken(device?.name.fullName ?? model); // model as device_info_plus reports it: "SM-G525F"

Testing

Depend on the DeviceProfileReader interface and pass a fake:

class FakeDeviceProfile implements DeviceProfileReader {
  @override
  Future<DeviceProfile?> read() async => const DeviceProfile(
    name: DisplayName('Pixel 9', NameSource.model),
    kind: DeviceKind.phone,
    screenShape: ScreenShape.rectangular,
  );
}

Where the name comes from

Platform	Source
Android	Only the keys of the device's own maker are read, in this order: the maker's factory name in settings (Samsung default_device_name, Huawei unified_default_device_name, vivo's hotspot name), the maker's marketing properties (ro.product.marketname on Xiaomi, ro.vendor.oplus.market.name on OPPO/realme/OnePlus, ro.config.marketing_name on Huawei and so on), Build.MODEL when it already is a name (Pixel, Motorola), the brand and the code.
iOS	The hardware identifier (iPhone13,1) looked up in a table of Apple identifiers; the identifier itself for a device newer than the table.
Others	null.

The kind comes from the Android system features, the build's own ro.build.characteristics and the screen width, or from the iOS interface idiom. The shape comes from Android's Configuration.isScreenRound; on iOS it is always rectangular, since no iPhone or iPad display is round.

Things to know

• A few vivo models keep their name from apps. vivo Y100, Y22 and Y21 carry no name an app may read; they get the brand and the code ("vivo V2239").
• Honor and Asus keys come from firmware research and have not been run on a real phone yet.
• New iPhones need the table updated: dart run tool/apple_identifiers/generate.dart, with tool/apple_identifiers/overrides.json for models the upstream list does not have yet.
• The user's name is personal data. Keep userAssignedName at never unless the name stays with the user, such as a list of their own devices.
• The name is as the maker writes it - "motorola edge 50 fusion" in lower case, "Lenovo Tab M8 (4th Gen)" with parentheses. Use userAgentToken where those characters matter.

Verified devices - 42 Android devices and two iOS simulators

The example app at targetSdk 36. The kind is phone unless the name says otherwise. "Run": device - a device at hand; BrowserStack - a BrowserStack App Live device; BrowserStack values - the values a BrowserStack device reported, the name checked by a unit test; simulator - an iOS simulator. preferred is the name in that mode where it differs; (owner) stands for the name of the person who renamed the phone.

Maker	Device	Android	Name	Source	preferred	Run
Xiaomi	Redmi 9A	10	Redmi 9A	ro.product.marketname	Redmi 9A (persist.sys.device_name)	device
Xiaomi	Redmi A5	15	Redmi A5	ro.product.marketname		device
Xiaomi	Redmi Note 11	11	Redmi Note 11	ro.product.marketname		BrowserStack
Xiaomi	Redmi Note 12 4G	13	Redmi Note 12	ro.product.marketname		BrowserStack
Xiaomi	Redmi Note 12 Pro	12	Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G	ro.product.marketname		BrowserStack
Xiaomi	Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G	14	Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G	ro.product.marketname		BrowserStack
Xiaomi	Redmi Note 14 Pro 5G	15	Redmi Note 14 Pro 5G	ro.product.marketname		BrowserStack
Samsung	Galaxy XCover 5	14	Galaxy XCover 5	default_device_name	(owner)'s XCover 5	device
Samsung	Galaxy M32	13	Galaxy M32	default_device_name	(owner)'s M32	device
Samsung	Galaxy Tab A7	12	Galaxy Tab A7 - tablet	default_device_name		device
Samsung	Galaxy S26	16	Galaxy S26	default_device_name		BrowserStack
Samsung	Galaxy S22+	12	Galaxy S22+	default_device_name		BrowserStack
Huawei	nova 11i	12	HUAWEI nova 11i	unified_default_device_name		device
Huawei	nova 11 SE	12	HUAWEI nova 11 SE	unified_default_device_name, brand added		BrowserStack values
Huawei	nova 13	12	HUAWEI nova 13	unified_default_device_name, brand added		BrowserStack values
Lenovo	Tab M8 (4th Gen)	13	Lenovo Tab M8 (4th Gen) - tablet	ro.odm.lenovo.series		device
Google	Pixel 9	17	Pixel 9	Build.MODEL		device
OPPO	Reno8 T 5G	14	OPPO Reno8 T 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OPPO	A78 5G	13	OPPO A78 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OPPO	A54	11	OPPO A54	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OPPO	A96	12	OPPO A96	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OPPO	F29 5G	15	OPPO F29 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OPPO	K14x 5G	16	OPPO K14x 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.enname		BrowserStack
realme	11x 5G	13	realme 11x 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.enname		BrowserStack
realme	12+ 5G	14	realme 12+ 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
realme	P3 5G	15	realme P3 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
realme	P4 Power 5G	16	realme P4 Power 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OnePlus	11R 5G	13	OnePlus 11R 5G	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OnePlus	12R	14	OnePlus 12R	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OnePlus	13R	15	OnePlus 13R	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
OnePlus	15R	16	OnePlus 15R	ro.vendor.oplus.market.name		BrowserStack
Motorola	edge 40 neo	13	motorola edge 40 neo	Build.MODEL		BrowserStack
Motorola	edge 50 fusion	14	motorola edge 50 fusion	Build.MODEL		BrowserStack
Motorola	edge 60 fusion	15	motorola edge 60 fusion	Build.MODEL		BrowserStack
Motorola	edge 70 fusion	16	motorola edge 70 fusion	Build.MODEL		BrowserStack
Motorola	moto g71 5G	11	moto g71 5G	Build.MODEL		BrowserStack
vivo	V30	14	vivo V30	wifi_hotspot_default_name		BrowserStack values
vivo	T4x 5G	15	vivo T4x 5G	wifi_hotspot_default_name		BrowserStack values
vivo	T5x 5G	16	vivo T5x 5G	ro.vivo.product.release.name, brand added		BrowserStack values
vivo	Y100	13	vivo V2239	brand and code - nothing readable names it		BrowserStack
vivo	Y22	12	vivo V2207	brand and code (the name is only in bluetooth_name, closed to apps on API 32+)		BrowserStack
vivo	Y21	11	vivo V2111	brand and code (as Y22)		BrowserStack
Apple	iPhone 17e	iOS simulator	iPhone 17e - phone	identifier table		simulator
Apple	iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)	iOS simulator	iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) - tablet	identifier table		simulator

The device kind was checked on Galaxy Tab A7 and Lenovo Tab M8 (tablet), Redmi A5, HUAWEI nova 11i and Galaxy M32 (phone) and both simulators; a round Wear OS emulator (192 dp) gave watch and ScreenShape.round. A foldable and a TV have not been run.

Repository

Path	What
lib/	the plugin
example/	an example app that shows the name, the kind, the shape and every source the plugin read
tool/apple_identifiers/	generates the table of Apple identifiers

License

MIT - see LICENSE.