Android 5.0 Lollipop And 4.4 Kitkat Ignores My Wifi Network, Enablenetwork() Is Useless

My app connect directly to a hardware device that act as an access point (with no access to internet). I can't connect because Android 5.0 automaticcaly switch to a valid internet

Solution 1:

You can try to use new Lollipop API ConnectivityManager.requestNetwork(), supposedly like this:

ConnectivityManagercm= (ConnectivityManager) Context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
cm.requestNetwork(newNetworkRequest.Builder()
                  .addTransportType(NetworkCapabilities.TRANSPORT_WIFI)
                  .setNetworkSpecifier("XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX")
                  .build(),
                  newConnectivityManager.NetworkCallback() {
                      voidonAvailable(Network network) {

                      }
                  });

where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is your WiFi SSID. I'm not sure about it's format, and if it's used at all, I did not find any references to setNetworkSpecifier inside Android sources, except for the NetworkCapabilities class.

Solution 2:

I found a workaround to enable the desidered network on Lollipop:

WifiConfiguration enable network in Lollipop

Now this is my code after calling wifiManager.enableNetwork(id, true):

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
    WifiManager wm = (WifiManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
    List<WifiConfiguration> networks = wm.getConfiguredNetworks();
    Iterator<WifiConfiguration> iterator = networks.iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
        WifiConfiguration wifiConfig = iterator.next();
        if (wifiConfig.SSID.replace("\"", "").equals(wc.SSID.replace("\"", "")))
            wm.enableNetwork(wifiConfig.networkId, true);
        else
            wm.disableNetwork(wifiConfig.networkId);
    }
    wm.reconnect();
}

maybe the secret is the call to reconnect(), I don't know at this time.

UPDATE Unfortunately, this workaround only works if a valid WiFi connection is active before executing the code. Does not works if you're connect by 3G only.

UPDATE 19 Jan 2015

This code actually works for me on Android 5/6.0.x:

//bind to current threadif (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
    ConnectivityManagerconnManager= (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkRequest.Builderrequest=newNetworkRequest.Builder();
    request.addTransportType(NetworkCapabilities.TRANSPORT_WIFI);
    connManager.registerNetworkCallback(request.build(), newConnectivityManager.NetworkCallback() {
        @OverridepublicvoidonAvailable(Network network) {
            ConnectivityManager.setProcessDefaultNetwork(network);
            //...
        }
    });
}

Solution 3:

Just need to correctly format the SSID. Here is a sample code:

WifiManager mWifiManager = (WifiManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
    WifiConfiguration tmpConfig = new WifiConfiguration();

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT>=Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
        tmpConfig.SSID=String.format("\"%s\"", sSSID);
        tmpConfig.BSSID= sBSSID;
    } else {
        tmpConfig.SSID="\""+ sSSID +"\"";
        tmpConfig.BSSID="\""+ sBSSID +"\"";
    }

    tmpConfig.priority =1;
    if (iSecurityType.equals("WEP")) {
        tmpConfig.wepKeys[0] = sPassword;
        tmpConfig.wepTxKeyIndex =0;
    } elseif (iSecurityType.equals("WPA2") ||   iSecurityType.equals("WPA")) {
            tmpConfig.preSharedKey ="\""+ sPassword+"\"";
        } else {
            tmpConfig.allowedKeyManagement.set(WifiConfiguration.KeyMgmt.NONE);
        }

    tmpConfig.status =WifiConfiguration.Status.ENABLED;
    int netId = mWifiManager.addNetwork(tmpConfig);

    mWifiManager.updateNetwork(tmpConfig);
    boolean result = mWifiManager.enableNetwork(netId, true);
    mWifiManager.updateNetwork(tmpConfig);
    mWifiManager.saveConfiguration();