Detect network connection type on Android

Question

How do you detect the network connection type on Android?

Is it through ConnectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo().getType(), and is the answer limited

Answer 1

You can use getSubtype() for more details. Check out slide 9 here: http://dl.google.com/io/2009/pres/W_0300_CodingforLife-BatteryLifeThatIs.pdf

ConnectivityManager mConnectivity = null;
TelephonyManager mTelephony = null;
// Skip if no connection, or background data disabled
NetworkInfo info = mConnectivity.getActiveNetworkInfo();
if (info == null || !mConnectivity.getBackgroundDataSetting()) {
    return false;
}

// Only update if WiFi or 3G is connected and not roaming
int netType = info.getType();
int netSubtype = info.getSubtype();
if (netType == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI) {
    return info.isConnected();
} else if (netType == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE
    && netSubtype == TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_UMTS
    && !mTelephony.isNetworkRoaming()) {
        return info.isConnected();
} else {
    return false;
}

Also, please check out Emil's answer for a more detailed dive into this.

Answer 2

You can check like this

public void checktype() {
    ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) this.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo activeNetwork = cm.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    if (activeNetwork != null) { // connected to the internet
        if (activeNetwork.getType() == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI) {
            // connected to wifi
            Toast.makeText(this, activeNetwork.getTypeName(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        } else if (activeNetwork.getType() == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE) {
            // connected to the mobile provider's data plan
            Toast.makeText(this, activeNetwork.getTypeName(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

Shown below different ways to do that. Please, note that there are a lot of network types in ConnectivityManager class. Also, if API >= 21, you can check the network types in NetworkCapabilities class.

    ConnectivityMonitor connectivityMonitor = ConnectivityMonitor.getInstance(this);
    boolean isWiFiConnected = connectivityMonitor.isWifiConnection();
    boolean isMobileConnected = connectivityMonitor.isConnected(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE);
    Log.e(TAG, "onCreate: isWiFiConnected " + isWiFiConnected);
    Log.e(TAG, "onCreate: isMobileConnected " + isMobileConnected);
    ConnectivityMonitor.Listener connectivityListener = new ConnectivityMonitor.Listener() {
        @Override
        public void onConnectivityChanged(boolean connected, @Nullable NetworkInfo networkInfo) {
            Log.e(TAG, "onConnectivityChanged: connected " + connected);
            Log.e(TAG, "onConnectivityChanged: networkInfo " + networkInfo);
            if (networkInfo != null) {
                boolean isWiFiConnected = networkInfo.getType() == NetworkCapabilities.TRANSPORT_WIFI;
                boolean isMobileConnected = networkInfo.getType() == NetworkCapabilities.TRANSPORT_CELLULAR;
                Log.e(TAG, "onConnectivityChanged: isWiFiConnected " + isWiFiConnected);
                Log.e(TAG, "onConnectivityChanged: isMobileConnected " + isMobileConnected);
            }
        }
    };
    connectivityMonitor.addListener(connectivityListener);

Answer 4

To get a more precise (and user friendly) information about connection type. You can use this code (derived from a @hide method in TelephonyManager.java).

This method returns a String describing the current connection type.
i.e. one of : "WIFI" , "2G" , "3G" , "4G" , "5G" , "-" (not connected) or "?" (unknown)

Remark: This code requires API 25+, but you can easily support older versions by using int instead of const. (See comments in code).

public static String getNetworkClass(Context context) {
    ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);      
    NetworkInfo info = cm.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    if (info == null || !info.isConnected())
        return "-"; // not connected
    if (info.getType() == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI)
        return "WIFI";
    if (info.getType() == ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE) {
        int networkType = info.getSubtype();
        switch (networkType) {
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_GPRS:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_EDGE:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_CDMA:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_1xRTT:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_IDEN:     // api< 8: replace by 11
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_GSM:      // api<25: replace by 16
                return "2G";
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_UMTS:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_EVDO_0:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_EVDO_A:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_HSDPA:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_HSUPA:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_HSPA:
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_EVDO_B:   // api< 9: replace by 12
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_EHRPD:    // api<11: replace by 14
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_HSPAP:    // api<13: replace by 15
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_TD_SCDMA: // api<25: replace by 17
                return "3G";
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_LTE:      // api<11: replace by 13
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_IWLAN:    // api<25: replace by 18
            case 19: // LTE_CA
                return "4G";
            case TelephonyManager.NETWORK_TYPE_NR:       // api<29: replace by 20
                return "5G";
            default:
                return "?";
         }
    }
    return "?";
}

Answer 5

On top of Emil's awsome answer I'd like to add one more method, for checking if you actually have Internet access as you could have data set to off on your phone.

public static boolean hasInternetAccess(Context c){
    TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) c.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
    if(isConnected(c) && tm.getDataState() == TelephonyManager.DATA_CONNECTED)
       return true;
    else
        return false;
}

Note that this is only for checking if theres a cellular data connection and will return false if you have WiFi connected, as the cellular data is off when WiFi is connected.

Answer 6

I use this simple code:

fun getConnectionInfo(): ConnectionInfo {
    val cm = appContext.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE) as ConnectivityManager

    return if (cm.activeNetwork == null) {
        ConnectionInfo.NO_CONNECTION
    } else {
        if (cm.isActiveNetworkMetered) {
            ConnectionInfo.MOBILE
        } else {
            ConnectionInfo.WI_FI
        }
    }
}