MATLAB has commands such as ispc/ismac/isunix and computer to determine the local computing environment. Is there a way to distinguish MATLAB Online and MATLAB Mobile from a local install? Both the online and mobile versions report themselves as 64-bit Linux, which is presumably the Mathworks server running behind the scenes. Both also have an enviroment variable MW_DDUX_APP_NAME that does not appear on Mac or Windows installs, with the very telling value MATLAB_ONLINE. My assumption is that a local Linux install would not have that variable, and if a local server did, the value would be different (unless one was running MATLAB Online behind a firewall).
So far I haven’t found a simple way of separating online and mobile versions, apart from a try/catch block containing a command that does not work on the latter (such as uifigure). That’s not very robust–is there a better way?MATLAB has commands such as ispc/ismac/isunix and computer to determine the local computing environment. Is there a way to distinguish MATLAB Online and MATLAB Mobile from a local install? Both the online and mobile versions report themselves as 64-bit Linux, which is presumably the Mathworks server running behind the scenes. Both also have an enviroment variable MW_DDUX_APP_NAME that does not appear on Mac or Windows installs, with the very telling value MATLAB_ONLINE. My assumption is that a local Linux install would not have that variable, and if a local server did, the value would be different (unless one was running MATLAB Online behind a firewall).
So far I haven’t found a simple way of separating online and mobile versions, apart from a try/catch block containing a command that does not work on the latter (such as uifigure). That’s not very robust–is there a better way? MATLAB has commands such as ispc/ismac/isunix and computer to determine the local computing environment. Is there a way to distinguish MATLAB Online and MATLAB Mobile from a local install? Both the online and mobile versions report themselves as 64-bit Linux, which is presumably the Mathworks server running behind the scenes. Both also have an enviroment variable MW_DDUX_APP_NAME that does not appear on Mac or Windows installs, with the very telling value MATLAB_ONLINE. My assumption is that a local Linux install would not have that variable, and if a local server did, the value would be different (unless one was running MATLAB Online behind a firewall).
So far I haven’t found a simple way of separating online and mobile versions, apart from a try/catch block containing a command that does not work on the latter (such as uifigure). That’s not very robust–is there a better way? online, mobile MATLAB Answers — New Questions

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