Yes, the next qns is how to do it...
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Robert Greenwalt <rgreenw...@google.com>wrote:
> If the app is granted permission by the user it would be ok. And apps
> that do intelligent things in this area may be useful and welcome. Without
> permission limits though, yeah this could be a problem.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Nick Kralevich <n...@google.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hmm.... From the platform's point of view, this sounds like a denial of
>> service attack against other applications on the device. One application
>> shouldn't be able to interfere with another application's network
>> connectivity without the user being involved.
>>
>> -- Nick
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:26 AM, CJ wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I am working on a app to automate some setting eg. to perform
>>> certain action such as disable mobile data when battery is low or night
>>> mode etc.
>>> There are app in the market that able to disable/enable mobile data
>>> connection like SmartAction and a few more. I also dislike the alter APN
>>> method so I am looking for better alternatives.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 23:14:41 UTC+8, Robert Greenwalt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Apps won't be able to alter the APN database after Honeycomb or perhaps
>>>> ICS. The User can disable data from settings. Why does an application
>>>> need to disable data?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:03 AM, CJ wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been googling for a while able the best or right way to
>>>>> disable/enable mobile network.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried the following code which is all over Stackoverflow and is
>>>>> working fine for gingerbread and higher:
>>>>>
>>>>> private void setMobileDataEnabled(Context context, boolean enabled)
>>>>> throws Exception {
>>>>> final ConnectivityManager conman = (ConnectivityManager) context
>>>>> .getSystemService(Context.**CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
>>>>> final Class<?> conmanClass = Class.forName(conman.getClass(**
>>>>> ).getName());
>>>>> final Field iConnectivityManagerField = conmanClass
>>>>> .getDeclaredField("mService");
>>>>> iConnectivityManagerField.**setAccessible(true);
>>>>> final Object iConnectivityManager = iConnectivityManagerField
>>>>> .get(conman);
>>>>> final Class<?> iConnectivityManagerClass = Class
>>>>> .forName(iConnectivityManager.**getClass().getName());
>>>>> final Method setMobileDataEnabledMethod = iConnectivityManagerClass
>>>>> .getDeclaredMethod("**setMobileDataEnabled", Boolean.TYPE);
>>>>> setMobileDataEnabledMethod.**setAccessible(true);
>>>>>
>>>>> setMobileDataEnabledMethod.**invoke(iConnectivityManager, enabled);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Somehow I didn't find a way to do the same thing for Android 2.2 and
>>>>> below. Many mentioned to change the APN name to something invalid like
>>>>> what
>>>>> app APNDroid did but is that the only way?
>>>>>
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