Android - Correct way to detect disconnecting from a particular wifi ssid?

Question

I've seen a couple of BroadcastReciever examples to detect wifi disconnects but none of them seem to work correctly (triggering twice for each disconnect for example) and none mention checking against an ssid, is this even possible?

So just to clarify, I want to detect disconnection from a particular ssid. An actual disconnect and not wifi being disabled on the device.

Thanks

EDIT: Re-opening as nothing works on both the devices we have to test.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '13 at 06:57

NETWORK_STATE_CHANGED_ACTION was the answer in the end. The device having the problem registering this event started working when another app (which would also be listening for similar events) was uninstalled! No idea how or why an app could block events registering with another app. The final solution ended up being;

    String action = intent.getAction();

    if (action.equals(WifiManager.NETWORK_STATE_CHANGED_ACTION))
    {
        WifiManager manager = (WifiManager)context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo networkInfo = intent.getParcelableExtra(WifiManager.EXTRA_NETWORK_INFO);
        NetworkInfo.State state = networkInfo.getState();

        if(state == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTED)
        {
            String connectingToSsid = manager.getConnectionInfo().getSSID().replace("\"", "");
            WifiStateHistory.recordConnectedSsid(connectingToSsid);
//connected
        }

        if(state == NetworkInfo.State.DISCONNECTED)
        {
            if(manager.isWifiEnabled())
            {
                String disconnectedFromSsid = WifiStateHistory.getLastConnectedSsid();
//disconnected
            }
        }
    }

Is there no way to get the Ssid from NetworkInfo.State.DISCONNECTED ? — stefan, Nov 29 '14 at 10:24
Hi, what is or where do you define the class WifiStateHistory? Thanks — Alex Bean, Apr 20 '18 at 11:02

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 10:05

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Are you sure there are twice notification for same state? There are always two phase of disconnection:

WifiManager.WIFI_STATE_DISABLING

WifiManager.WIFI_STATE_DISABLED

answered Apr 02 '13 at 10:05

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '13 at 22:10

My code to detect (and rebroadcast) connections and disconnects (not by disabling wifi) and including the SSID as an extra is as follows. Most of what I've read suggested using SUPPLICANT_CONNECTION_CHANGE_ACTION but this just did not work correctly, it would seemingly only fire when disabling/enabling wifi on my device (Nexus 4) and not during connections. The only problem is on first run of the app as it won't record the current ssid so doesn't know what the ssid of the network that has just been connected. Any ideas around this?

public class EventMapper extends BroadcastReceiver
{
    private static String lastConnectedSsid = "";

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
    {
        if (intent.getAction().equals(WifiManager.SUPPLICANT_STATE_CHANGED_ACTION))
        {
            SupplicantState state = intent.getParcelableExtra(WifiManager.EXTRA_NEW_STATE);

            if(state == SupplicantState.COMPLETED)
            {
                WifiManager manager = (WifiManager)context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);

                lastConnectedSsid = manager.getConnectionInfo().getSSID().replace("\"", "");

                Intent newIntent = new Intent();            
                newIntent.setAction(Event.App_Event_WifiConnected.name());
                newIntent.putExtra("App_Events_SSID", lastConnectedSsid);

                context.sendBroadcast(newIntent);
            }

            if(state == SupplicantState.DISCONNECTED)
            {
                boolean wifiEnabled = ((WifiManager)context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE)).isWifiEnabled();

                if(wifiEnabled)
                {
                    Intent newIntent = new Intent();            
                    newIntent.setAction(Event.App_Event_WifiDisconnected.name());
                    newIntent.putExtra("App_Events_SSID", lastConnectedSsid);

                    context.sendBroadcast(newIntent);   
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

I'm going to have to re-open this as listening for SUPPLICANT_STATE_CHANGED_ACTION to show DISCONNECTED does not work on the other developer's HTC One X (4.1) even though it worked fine on my Nexus 4. The HTC goes straight to the SCANNING state on disconnect. We then tried NETWORK_STATE_CHANGED_ACTION which again, is reliable on the Nexus, doesn't work on the HTC! Incredibly frustrating as this is literally the only thing stopping us putting out a beta of our app. — SeeNoWeevil, Aug 17 '13 at 17:19

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 02 '14 at 09:22

I got the same problem in some custom roms. I used "android.net.wifi.STATE_CHANGE" to listen the network change. In the receiver, I used "(NetworkInfo)intent.getParcelableExtra("networkInfo")).getState()" to get the network state. There are three states: DISCONNECTED, CONNECTING, CONNECTED. You can use DISCONNECTED to detect if the network is disconnected.

Please let me know if it works in your situation(HTC One X (4.1)).

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