iOS: Internet connection available?

[Chris Sheffield]

Good advice. Thanks, Scott.

On Oct 10, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> As a follow up to Colin's comment, if you decide to check Internet
> availability using the default behavior of your app and you have a server
> or host that you're relying on, use that server for the test.  Folks will
> often suggest using google.com as a network test because it's almost 100%
> guaranteed to be available, but that won't help your app if your own
> server isn't available.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/10/12 2:59 PM, "Chris Sheffield" <cmsheffield at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> I did just read through that.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working properly. Or maybe I'm not
>> using it in the right way. When I tried testing it just now, I always got
>> an empty value back in the reachability info, even when I had WiFi turned
>> on. It looks like it's designated as "experimental", so maybe it's just
>> not polished up yet.
>> 
>> I did find another working solution, but whether or not it's reliable
>> remains to be seen. There's a networkInterfaces property. This appears to
>> return simply "127.0.0.1" when no Internet connection is available. If
>> there is a connection available, it returns a list of all IP addresses,
>> one for each available network interface. I'll be testing this out some
>> more, but so far it looks promising.
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion about network reachability. That would probably
>> be the better way to go if it were working...
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia <guglielmo at braguglia.ch>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Chris,
>>> read the "iOS Release Notes", paragraph : "Network reachability
>>> checking" ... :)
>>> 
>>> Guglielmo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10.10.2012 23:39, Chris Sheffield wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have a good way in an iOS app to determine if an Internet
>>>> connection is available? I'm not finding anything very useful in the LC
>>>> Dictionary. Bonus points if there's also a way to determine the type of
>>>> connection available (WiFi vs. cell service (3G/4G)).
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Chris
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Chris Sheffield
>>>> Read Naturally, Inc.
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>>>> 
>>>> 
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