Here is the scenario: A smart phone is used to interface to a piece of equipment via WIFI (i.e. the equipment provides limited access point capability, and the phone connects to this). An application on the phone wants to send an email. It appears that (at least DEFAULT) behavior on phones is to route email via WIFI if connected, and the cellular provider if not connected via WIFI. Since the WIFI link in this case does not provide internet connectivity, the email SHOULD be routed to the cellular provider.
Q1: Is Android smart enough to figure out that the WIFI link is NOT to the internet, and route the email to the cellular provider? If so, is this basic to android, or is it a feature that may or may not exist depending on the version and/or brand? This is the preferred solution, and I've noted Windows can determine if a network has internet access or not (but might know by doing something dumb, like pinging microsoft servers, etc.) Q2: Assuming Android is not 'smart enough' or cannot determine the WIFI link is not internet capable, is there a way for the application attempting to send an email to SPECIFY the email is to be routed via the cellular provider? I'm guessing this is unlikely, as a poorly written (or intentionally badly-behaved) application could rack up $$$ using cell data transfer when a perfectly good WIFI link was available. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
