bug: platform.is('tablet') returns true when running on an android phone device.

[davidperis92]

Bug Report

Ionic version:
[x] 4.11.8

Current behavior:
platfrom.is('tablet') returns true when running on an android phone device

Expected behavior:
It should return true only when is runt on a tablet device.

Steps to reproduce:
Run an app that uses platform.is('tablet') on an android phone and watch the returned value of the function.

Related code:
File in github repository:
core/src/utils/platform.ts

const isAndroidTablet = (win: Window) => {
  return isAndroid(win) && !testUserAgent(win, /mobile/i);
};

const isMobile = (win: Window) =>
  matchMedia(win, '(any-pointer:coarse)');

If we look at this functions we can see that the "mobile" condition is checked in two different ways (with matchMedia and testUserAgent). When I run the app on a Mi phone device it returns true for platform.is('tablet') because testUserAgent(win, /mobile/i) returns false.

[liamdebeasi]

Thanks for the issue. I am going to close this in favor of #19737.

Due to inconsistencies between platforms and across devices, it is not easy to achieve a 100% success rate with platform detection. For example Android phones typically have mobile in their user agent string; however, a small number of Android phones do not.

We have opted instead to allow developers to override our platform detection methods with other methods that better suit an application's use case.

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