Android Robotium : Make Wi-Fi and Mobile Data Network Enable & Disable Programatically

Abhishek Swain | October 17, 2013 | Android, Mobile, Robotium | 2 Comments

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While working with android application development or automating test scripts for android application testing sometimes we need to ON/OFF Wi-Fi and Mobile Data Access feature explicitly.

Android library facilitates to do that in the following way:

For Wi-Fi:

WifiManager wifiman=(WifiManager)solo.getCurrentActivity().getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
wifiman.setWifiEnabled(false);

Passing false will disable Wi-Fi and true enables it.

For Mobile Data:

ConnectivityManager dataManager=(ConnectivityManager)solo.getCurrentActivity().getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);

Method dataMtd = ConnectivityManager.class.getDeclaredMethod(“setMobileDataEnabled”, boolean.class);
dataMtd.setAccessible(true);
dataMtd.invoke(dataManager, true);

Please Note:

The following permission must be configured in AndroidManifest.xml file .
For Wi-Fi:

android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE

android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE

For Mobile Data:

android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE

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  • David F

    Should I add the permissions on the test project or the tested project?

  • http://mindfiremobiletesting.wordpress.com Mindfire Mobile Testing

    Hi David

    We need to add permissions to tested project only.