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Android

Posted by srikanth chadalavada
srikanth chadalavada
747 Points

smack api for android, Connection.isConnected().

I am testing my chat app on android.

one of the test scenarios is when I turn off the wifi on my server, The client thinks it is still connected, because isConnected() method returns true.

So I am unable to validate the connection in this particular scenario. Any thoughts on this problem? Thank you.

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

By "turnn off wifi on my server", do you mean you are disconnecting the server that you are using as the back-end? In that case the phone will still be connected to the Internet, but when it attempts to connect to your service it should get an error. You'll need to add error handling when that attempt to connect is made.

srikanth chadalavada
srikanth chadalavada
747 Points

Yes, I am the disconnecting the server, my call for reconnect method is done only when isConnected() returns false, but it returns true in this case(it lies). Thank you Ben.

Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

I am not familiar with the Smack API, but I took a quick look at their documentation. Perhaps you could try ConnectionConfiguration#setReconnectionAllowed(boolean). From the docs:

By default Smack will try to reconnect the connection in case it was abruptly disconnected. Use ConnectionConfiguration#setReconnectionAllowed(boolean) to turn on/off this feature. The reconnection manager will try to immediately reconnect to the server and increase the delay between attempts as successive reconnections keep failing.

http://www.igniterealtime.org/builds/smack/docs/latest/documentation/connections.html