Good advice. Thanks, Scott. On Oct 10, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Scott Rossi <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a follow up to Colin's comment, if you decide to check Internet > availability using the default behavior of your app and you have a server > or host that you're relying on, use that server for the test. Folks will > often suggest using google.com as a network test because it's almost 100% > guaranteed to be available, but that won't help your app if your own > server isn't available. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > > On 10/10/12 2:59 PM, "Chris Sheffield" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I did just read through that. >> >> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working properly. Or maybe I'm not >> using it in the right way. When I tried testing it just now, I always got >> an empty value back in the reachability info, even when I had WiFi turned >> on. It looks like it's designated as "experimental", so maybe it's just >> not polished up yet. >> >> I did find another working solution, but whether or not it's reliable >> remains to be seen. There's a networkInterfaces property. This appears to >> return simply "127.0.0.1" when no Internet connection is available. If >> there is a connection available, it returns a list of all IP addresses, >> one for each available network interface. I'll be testing this out some >> more, but so far it looks promising. >> >> Thanks for the suggestion about network reachability. That would probably >> be the better way to go if it were working... >> >> Chris >> >> >> On Oct 10, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Chris, >>> read the "iOS Release Notes", paragraph : "Network reachability >>> checking" ... :) >>> >>> Guglielmo >>> >>> >>> On 10.10.2012 23:39, Chris Sheffield wrote: >>>> Does anyone have a good way in an iOS app to determine if an Internet >>>> connection is available? I'm not finding anything very useful in the LC >>>> Dictionary. Bonus points if there's also a way to determine the type of >>>> connection available (WiFi vs. cell service (3G/4G)). >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Chris Sheffield >>>> Read Naturally, Inc. >>>> www.readnaturally.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
