How to programmatically check availibilty of internet connection in Android?

Question

I want to check programmatically whether there is an internet connection in Android phone/emulator. So that once I am sure that an internet connection is present then I\'ll

Answer 1

this code must be run in background thread

fun hasActiveInternetConnection(): Boolean {
    return try {
        val ipAddr: InetAddress = InetAddress.getByName("google.com")
        !ipAddr.equals("")
    } catch (e: java.lang.Exception) {
        false
    }
}