Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Checking Network Availability

I have seen a few applications which first try to initiate a network connection before checking if any network is available or not. And then, if the request fails, they toast a message saying "No network available". This might not be the right approach in most of the situations. Before initiating a connection, we should always check the availability of a network and then proceed. Android provides a simple way by which you can know the status of the active network if any. So, why not use it. It's very simple.

The code:
 public static boolean isNetworkAvailable(Context context) {
            boolean value = false;
            ConnectivityManager manager = (ConnectivityManager) context
                             .getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
            NetworkInfo info = manager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
            if (info != null && info.isAvailable()) {
                           value = true;
            }
            return value;
 }

2 comments:

  1. thanks for the post, i'll use it.

    BTW, each time I come to your blog, my CPU turn to 100%

    I think you've a buggy script some where in the blog

    So goodbay before my laptop start burning

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