android-internet

How to check if the device is connected to internet or it is just connected to external wifi network? Because NetworkInfo returns true if a device is connected to an external wifi network even there is no network connection. When device is connected to wifi but there is no internet access,my app's network connectivity-check class returns true but application crashes with the exception that it cannot access the corresponding http url. If you want to know when you have an active internet connection, do something like this: Some static variables: /** * Set the number of retries when

I'm using an intent service to communicate with a server to get data for an app. I'd like the app to wait until the data it requests has been sent back (hopefully meaning that the IntentService the data has been requested from has finished running) before the app attempts to access or use the variables the data is to be stored in. How would I go about doing this? thanks! Easiest way is to have your IntentService send a Broadcast once it is done gathering data from the server, which you can listen to in your UI thread (e.g. Activity ). public final class Constants { ... // Defines a custom

this is my class that checks if the device is connected to the internet. import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Context; import android.net.ConnectivityManager; import android.net.NetworkInfo; import android.util.Log; import java.io.IOException; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; public class ConnectionDetector { private Context _context; public ConnectionDetector(Context context) { this._context = context; } public boolean isConnectingToInternet() { if (networkConnectivity()) { try { HttpURLConnection urlc = (HttpURLConnection) (new URL( "http://www.google