diff --git a/src/platform/platform-registry.ts b/src/platform/platform-registry.ts
index b88c30cacd..d29462cd5b 100644
--- a/src/platform/platform-registry.ts
+++ b/src/platform/platform-registry.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { OpaqueToken } from '@angular/core';
 
 import { Platform, PlatformConfig } from './platform';
-import { isCordova, isIos, isIosUIWebView } from './platform-utils';
+import { isCordova, isElectron, isIos, isIosUIWebView } from './platform-utils';
 
 
 export const PLATFORM_CONFIGS: { [key: string]: PlatformConfig } = {
@@ -219,6 +219,24 @@ export const PLATFORM_CONFIGS: { [key: string]: PlatformConfig } = {
     isMatch(plt: Platform): boolean {
       return isCordova(plt);
     }
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * electron
+   */
+  'electron': {
+    superset: 'core',
+    initialize: function(plt: Platform) {
+      plt.prepareReady = function() {
+        // 1) ionic bootstrapped
+        plt.windowLoad(function() {
+          plt.triggerReady('electron');
+        });
+      };
+    },
+    isMatch(plt: Platform): boolean {
+      return isElectron(plt);
+    }
   }
 };
 
diff --git a/src/platform/platform-utils.ts b/src/platform/platform-utils.ts
index 50f06d7044..a2a0071ec0 100644
--- a/src/platform/platform-utils.ts
+++ b/src/platform/platform-utils.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ export function isCordova(plt: Platform): boolean {
   return !!(win['cordova'] || win['PhoneGap'] || win['phonegap']);
 }
 
+export function isElectron(plt: Platform): boolean {
+  return plt.testUserAgent('Electron');
+}
+
 export function isIos(plt: Platform): boolean {
   // shortcut function to be reused internally
   // checks navigator.platform to see if it's an actual iOS device
diff --git a/src/platform/test/platform.spec.ts b/src/platform/test/platform.spec.ts
index 99237eaf32..310f026c9e 100644
--- a/src/platform/test/platform.spec.ts
+++ b/src/platform/test/platform.spec.ts
@@ -444,6 +444,22 @@ describe('Platform', () => {
     expect(plt.is('tablet')).toEqual(true);
   });
 
+  it('should set electron via user agent', () => {
+    plt.setQueryParams('');
+    plt.setDefault('core');
+    plt.setUserAgent(OSX_10_ELECTRON_1_4_15_UA);
+    plt.init();
+
+    expect(plt.is('core')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(plt.is('mobile')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(plt.is('windows')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(plt.is('android')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(plt.is('ios')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(plt.is('ipad')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(plt.is('tablet')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(plt.is('electron')).toEqual(true);
+  })
+
   it('should set core platform for osx desktop firefox', () => {
     plt.setQueryParams('');
     plt.setDefault('core');
@@ -549,6 +565,7 @@ describe('Platform', () => {
 const OSX_10_FIREFOX_43_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0';
 const OSX_10_SAFARI_9_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_3) AppleWebKit/601.4.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.3 Safari/601.4.4';
 const OSX_10_CHROME_49_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36';
+const OSX_10_ELECTRON_1_4_15_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ionic-hello-world/1.4.15 Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Electron/1.4.15 Safari/537.36';
 
 const WINDOWS_10_CHROME_40_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.93 Safari/537.36';
 const WINDOWS_10_EDGE_12_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0';
@@ -564,4 +581,4 @@ const ANDROID_7_1_1_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; Nexus 6 Build/N6F26
 const IPHONE_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12A4345d Safari/600.1.4';
 const IPHONE_10_2_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.3.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/14C89 (140564782665216)';
 const IPAD_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53';
-const IPAD_10_2_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.3.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/14C89 (140342232906320)';
+const IPAD_10_2_UA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.3.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/14C89 (140342232906320)';
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