How to connect an android phone to the hotspot setup on my laptop programmatically?

Question

I am developing an Android application in which I need to connect my phone to my laptop hotspot programmatically using Java. The scenario is, when I click a button in the application, my device should disconnect from the connected wifi network and should automatically connect to my laptop hotspot. I have implemented the code to disconnect my phone from the connected wifi network, however, I need to know how should I connect it to the laptop hotspot specifically.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '20 at 10:28

Using this method you can connect to a specific WIFI network

 private WifiManager wifiManager;
 wifiManager = (WifiManager) c.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
 connectToWifi("networkSSID", "networkPassword");


 /**
 * Connect to the specified wifi network.
 *
 * @param networkSSID     - The wifi network SSID
 * @param networkPassword - the wifi password
 */
private void connectToWifi(final String networkSSID, final String networkPassword) {
    if (!wifiManager.isWifiEnabled()) {
        wifiManager.setWifiEnabled(true);
    }

    WifiConfiguration conf = new WifiConfiguration();
    conf.SSID = String.format("\"%s\"", networkSSID);
    conf.preSharedKey = String.format("\"%s\"", networkPassword);

    int netId = wifiManager.addNetwork(conf);
    wifiManager.disconnect();
    wifiManager.enableNetwork(netId, true);
    wifiManager.reconnect();
}

Don't forget to add permissions in your Manifest file

Refer this blog for more info : wifimanager example

It works perfectly now, although there were some bumps in the beginning... Thanks — abdul razik fakih, Oct 03 '20 at 10:45
@abdulrazikfakih Glad, I could help. Please approve/upvote the answer if it satisfies the question! Thank you :) — Tejas Dhawale, Oct 03 '20 at 11:38

How to connect an android phone to the hotspot setup on my laptop programmatically?

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