Detect if Android device has Internet connection

Question

I need to tell if my device has Internet connection or not. I found many answers like:

private boolean isNetworkAvailable() {
    ConnectivityManager connect         


        

Answer 1

You don't necessarily need to make a full HTTP connection. You could try just opening a TCP connection to a known host and if it succeeds you have internet connectivity.

public boolean hostAvailable(String host, int port) {
  try (Socket socket = new Socket()) {
    socket.connect(new InetSocketAddress(host, port), 2000);
    return true;
  } catch (IOException e) {
    // Either we have a timeout or unreachable host or failed DNS lookup
    System.out.println(e);
    return false;
  }
}

Then just check with:

boolean online = hostAvailable("www.google.com", 80);