Detecting limited network connectivity in Android?

Question

There are a number of questions regarding how to detect network connectivity in Android. https://stackoverflow.com/a/4239019/90236 provides a very detailed answer and https:

Answer 1

For completeness, let me post some code that I've added. I think it is fairly generic HttpClient code to make an Http request and return true when the request is succesful. I used HttpHead because I don't care about the entity in the response and this should make it faster. This method is in a class called ConnectivityHelper and DefaultSettings is a class that has a bunch of useful constants defined.

public static boolean isNetworkAvailable() {
    ConnectivityManager manager = (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo netInfo;

    try {
        netInfo = manager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        netInfo = null;
    }

    return netInfo != null && netInfo.isConnected() && testConnection(DefaultSettings.TEST_CONNECTION_URL);
}


private static boolean testConnection(String url) {
    HttpClient httpClient = null;
    HttpHead request = null;
    HttpResponse response = null;
    int statusCode = 0;

    try {
        HttpParams myParams = new BasicHttpParams();
        HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(myParams, DefaultSettings.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
        HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(myParams, DefaultSettings.SO_TIMEOUT);

        httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(myParams);

        request = new HttpHead(url);
        response = httpClient.execute(request);
        statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

        if (statusCode != 200)
        {
            Log.e(ConnectivityHelper.class.getName(), String.format("testConnection not successful. For %s - Status code = %d", url, statusCode));
            return false;
        }
        return true;

    } catch(ClientProtocolException e) {
        Log.e(ConnectivityHelper.class.getName(), String.format("testConnection failure. For %s - Exception: %s.", url, e.toString()));

        if (request != null && !request.isAborted()) {
            request.abort();
        }

        return false;
    } catch(IOException e) {
        if (statusCode == 401) {
            Log.e(ConnectivityHelper.class.getName(), String.format("testConnection access denied. For %s - Status code = %d", url, statusCode));               
        } else {
            Log.e(ConnectivityHelper.class.getName(), String.format("testConnection failure. For %s - Exception: %s.", url, e.toString()));
        }

        if (request != null && !request.isAborted()) {
            request.abort();
        }

        return false;
    } finally {
        if (httpClient != null) {
            httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
        }
    }           
}