Fix #660 - Add new helper method: getDeviceVendor() to guess the device vendor from a model name

src/helpers/ua-parser-helpers.d.ts

@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@
 
 import { IResult } from "../main/ua-parser";
 
+declare function getDeviceVendor(model: string): string | undefined;
 declare function isAppleSilicon(res: IResult): boolean;
 declare function isChromeFamily(res: IResult): boolean;
 declare function isFrozenUA(ua: string): boolean;
 declare function isStandalonePWA(): boolean;
 
 export {
+    getDeviceVendor,
     isAppleSilicon,
     isChromeFamily,
     isFrozenUA,

src/helpers/ua-parser-helpers.js

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 /*jshint esversion: 6 */ 
 
 const { CPU, OS, Engine } = require('../enums/ua-parser-enums');
+const { UAParser } = require('../main/ua-parser');
+
+const getDeviceVendor = (model) => UAParser(`Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; ${model}) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`).device.vendor;
 
 const isAppleSilicon = (res) => {
     if (res.os.is(OS.MACOS)) {
@@ -44,6 +47,7 @@ const isStandalonePWA = () => window && (window.matchMedia('(display-mode: stand
                                 document.referrer.startsWith('app-info://platform/microsoft-store'));
 
 module.exports = { 
+    getDeviceVendor,
     isAppleSilicon,
     isChromeFamily,
     isFrozenUA,

test/mocha-test-helpers.js

@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@
 const assert = require('assert');
 const { UAParser } = require('../src/main/ua-parser');
-const { isAppleSilicon, isChromeFamily } = require('../src/helpers/ua-parser-helpers');
+const { getDeviceVendor, isAppleSilicon, isChromeFamily } = require('../src/helpers/ua-parser-helpers');
+
+describe('getDeviceVendor', () => {
+    it('Can guess the device vendor from a model name', () => {
+        
+        const modelSM = 'SM-A605G';
+        const modelRedmi = 'Redmi Note 8';
+        const modelNexus = 'Nexus 6P';
+        const modelQuest = 'Quest 3';
+        const modelAquos = 'AQUOS-TVX19B';
+
+        assert.equal(getDeviceVendor(modelSM), 'Samsung');
+        assert.equal(getDeviceVendor(modelRedmi), 'Xiaomi');
+        assert.equal(getDeviceVendor(modelNexus), 'Huawei');
+        assert.equal(getDeviceVendor(modelQuest), 'Facebook');
+        assert.equal(getDeviceVendor(modelAquos), 'Sharp');
+    });
+});
 
 describe('isAppleSilicon', () => {
     it('Can detect Apple Silicon device', () => {