I would like to know if it is possible to connect the android emulator to the wifi card to detect the available networks and connect to them.
I am trying to use a library for drive drones and first, I need to be connected to the drone's wifi network but in the android emulator the networks do not appear, there is only one by default that is wifiAndroid.
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I'm trying to throttle my device's network connection while testing it on Android studio. My strategy will be to try and reverse tether the phone to my macbook Air so the computer acts as a hotspot. The computer will be connected to the internet via wifi, and should be acting as an internet hotspot for any paired devices.
However the internet connectivity is never set, so the android device never connects online.
What I did:
Turn on network sharing via Wi-Fi, checked the Blue Tooth Pan Option.
Paired the devices (i.e. the phone is detected by the macbook and vice/versa.
Set up a static IP on the blue tooth pan configuration (see image).
And here is my Bluetooth setup on the device:
My phone is not rooted and frankly I'd rather not have to root it - but for some reason the phone is not detecting Bluetooth on the macbook air. But the macbook does detect the phone and is able to send files to it.
What gives?
I did working reverse tethering from MacBook Pro El Capitan to android mobile. Sharing the network Macbook Pro with Bluetooth PAN.
The trick is, to have android mobile rooted. First connect your mobile to any wifi, change advanced network options in mobile as Static IP, 192.168.2.1 router 192.168.2.1 DNS 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4.
With terminal emulator apk, enter: su dhcpcd bt-pan
Now you can close your wifi in mobile.
be sure you have bluetooth pan configured as "Use DHCP with manual address" option matching same IP and DNS your put in android.
Note; of course android paired with the macbook, and sharing network and sharing bluetooth options active.
All working very stable.
Recently, I've tried to check transfer packages by proxy-ing from Mac to Android device. I think Bluetooth shouldn't be used for setting the shared internet but instead you should just share from your Ethernet to Wi-Fi.
(I tried to put in a comment as this is more like it since I don't have any images or a concrete explanation... but it wouldn't allow it).
Suppose you only have one android device, but you would like to experiment with the Wi-Fi P2P API. Is it possible to use a computer to mock the other wifi device running whatever OS and application that is necessary to play the other part in the P2P communication?
I know the android emulator doesn't support wifi.
Is it possible to test wifi related tests on Android Emulator. That means in my application I have a scenario which will search a particular wifi network available and then connect to it entering password in the password field. Is it possible using Emulator only. Can it be done so that Emulator will access the wifi adapter of laptop and the available networks will be shown in the search list in Emulator.
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I am using Robotium version 4.3 with ADT.
No, this is not possible.
There is no APIs to access the system WiFi adaptor.
Unfortunately, you can't enable WiFi on your android Emulator because the emulator is actually a virtual OS running on pc, which is using your laptop/pc WiFi connection.
If you want to search for WiFi networks, you better search on a real device.
I am trying out one example with of wifi-Direct for android.
I have run the the demo application on two different android phones.
Is it that both the application needs active wifi AP?
Is it necessary that we need to connect both the device to same wifi AP?
Is it that disabling wifi on the device will disconnect the wifi-direct session?
Can some one point me to one simple (basic) example of wifi-direct.
Android setting app can search and connect via wifi direct
4.0
setting app -> wireless setting other -> wi-fi direct (checked)
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/android-4.0.1_r1.1/src/com/android/settings/wifi/p2p/WifiP2pSettings.java
if this activity didn't shows on your device, try create shortcut app, such as
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sika524.android.quickshortcut
currently disabled p2psettings activity on AOSP source code.
so i'm strongly recommended 4.1 later device.
4.1 later
setting app -> wireless setting -> (menu) -> wi-fi direct
my test app shows how to use wifi direct api.
https://github.com/kensuke/WiFiDirectTestApp
According to Android docs:
Wi-Fi peer-to-peer (P2P) allows Android 4.0 (API level 14) or later
devices with the appropriate hardware to connect directly to each
other via Wi-Fi without an intermediate access point (Android's Wi-Fi
P2P framework complies with the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Direct™
certification program).
So, you don't need to connect to any access point. just enable wifi and start to search available devices to connect.
disable wifi will disconnect wifi direct connection.
here is my app shows wifi direct connection and transfer files.
https://github.com/Youxian-Chen/WiFiDirectTransfer
hope this helps.
Is it possible to connect the emulator to Wi-fi? Since am not using eclipse or any IDE... Am trying to connect a stand alone emulator to Wi-fi
Currently, while you can use your computer's Internet connection in the emulator, it's not reliable to use it for simulating Wi-Fi. The WifiManager gets confused when you switch/want to test your connectivity state.
Even in Android 1.5, there were some problems with it (Issue 2571 - android), and while you can use your Internet for simulating HTTP connections and downloading data, finer control over Wi-Fi connectivity should better be done with a device.
If you mean that the emulator should connect to the internet via your PC/MAC then it works without any changes.
I am able to browser the internet via the browser in the emulator i.e. the emulator has internet connectivity.