Android 5.0 Lollipop and 4.4 KitKat ignores my WiFi network, enableNetwork() is useless

Question

My app connect directly to a hardware device that act as an access point (with no access to internet).

I can\'t connect because Android 5.0 automat

Answer 1

You can try to use new Lollipop API ConnectivityManager.requestNetwork(), supposedly like this:

ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) Context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
cm.requestNetwork(new NetworkRequest.Builder()
                  .addTransportType(NetworkCapabilities.TRANSPORT_WIFI)
                  .setNetworkSpecifier("XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX")
                  .build(),
                  new ConnectivityManager.NetworkCallback() {
                      void onAvailable(Network network) {

                      }
                  });

where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is your WiFi SSID. I'm not sure about it's format, and if it's used at all, I did not find any references to setNetworkSpecifier inside Android sources, except for the NetworkCapabilities class.