On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Sayed Atif Ali
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to set the proxy through my code in android devices upwards of
> Android 2.3.3. The only method which I know of right now is doing it through
> the shell in the emulator:
>
> 1. > adb shell
>
>
> 2. # sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
>
>
> 3. sqlite> INSERT INTO system VALUES(99,’http_proxy', 'proxy:port');
>
>
> 4. sqlite>.exit

And that will only work on the emulator or a rooted device.

> Does android provide an API to do this from within the code

Not device-wide. You can set properties to affect the proxy used by
your own app, though.

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