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Android

Posted by Tom Achki
Tom Achki
3,680 Points

NetworkInfo is deprecated. What to use in order to check if network is available?

I've been looking in Android DOCS for an hour and could not figure this out. Can someone provide code for testing connection availability? I do not want to use deprecated classes and methods.

2 Answers

Tom Achki
Tom Achki
3,680 Points

Thank you so much for reply. I loved the Stormy course and now I am practicing with my skills. You are a great teacher!

Tom Achki
Tom Achki
3,680 Points
Tom Achki
Tom Achki
3,680 Points

I have been working for a bit. I implemented NetworkCallBack and called onAvailable and onUnavailabe methods. I also checked out onLost and onLoosing to see how they work.

I tested onAvailable method and it works fine. I can get data from API when I've access to the internet. However, I could not make onUnavailable work.

  • I tried to show some toasts when my wifi was turned off but it did not show anything.
  • I tried logging but my log messages were not in the logcat.

Maybe I am doing something wrong? is unAvailable method the one I should use when network is unavailable?

And last thing, I've noticed that onUnavailable() checks unavailability based on timeout(Do not know anything about it) property. How to make my app see that connection is unavailable in terms of this timeout?