iOS: Internet connection available?

[Chris Sheffield]

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
>> 
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