This tutorial shows how to check whether your Android phone is currently connected to a network or not (e.g. Wi-Fi, 3G etc.).
A while back, I wrote a tutorial on how to dynamically monitor network connectivity in Android. However, sometimes all you want is to check if your phone has an active network connection at any given time (i.e. not to constantly monitor its status).
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Tagged Android, check current network, ConnectivityManager, Guides
Android devices have multiple network interfaces (e.g. WiFi and 3G/4G etc.) that allows them to go online and be connected to the outside world. At the same time, these network interfaces are prone to intermittent disconnection (for example, due to location, weather etc). Having knowledge of when the phone is connected (or disconnected) helps applications to act smartly when communicating over the internet. An example is automatically resuming pending downloads – without user intervention – when your network connection comes back online.
The following guide shows how you can monitor the network connectivity in Android, so your application can respond better when the network connectivity changes.
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