How to return BOOL when checking internet connection in XCODE

Question

I want to be able to check for internet connectivity when my View loads. To predetermine the contents of my view.

I have the following viewDidLoad method:

Answer 1

Best way is to use Reachability code. Check here for apple sample code. That has a lot of convenience methods to check internet availability, Wifi/WAN connectivity check etc..

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(networkChanged:) name:kReachabilityChangedNotification object:nil];

reachability = [Reachability reachabilityForInternetConnection];
[reachability startNotifier];

- (void)networkChanged:(NSNotification *)notification
{

  NetworkStatus remoteHostStatus = [reachability currentReachabilityStatus];

  if(remoteHostStatus == NotReachable) { NSLog(@"not reachable");}
  else if (remoteHostStatus == ReachableViaWiFiNetwork) { NSLog(@"wifi"); }
  else if (remoteHostStatus == ReachableViaCarrierDataNetwork) { NSLog(@"carrier"); }
}