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The Settings on Android provides an option to add VPN manually.

Can this be done programmatically through some kind of an API?

I'm not looking for a way to connect to a VPN. I'm only concerned about configuring a VPN profile.

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Please see this answer, it is not possible with the Android SDK.

This is not possible with Android SDK. However, some manufactures like Motorola have their own flavor of android and in their SDK they have made it possible.

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  • Does Motorola allow for you to use their SDK with non-Motorola devices? – John Riselvato Nov 02 '11 at 13:23
  • No the motorola EDM sdk comes bundled with the latest Motorola phones. It cannot be used in other phones. See http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/library/Secure_and_Flexible_Device_Management_for_Motorola_Devices/ for more detials – Avinash Nov 02 '11 at 13:36
  • @jack Does the new 4.0 sdk provide any such functionality? I see sone VpnService but not sure if it has this capability – Avinash Nov 02 '11 at 13:38
  • @Avinash Read http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html, bottom of page – Jack Nov 02 '11 at 15:16
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See also this question -- Create VPN profile on Android. Briefly, we came to the conclusion that it's not only not possible with the Android SDK, but it's not possible even with a hacked SDK unless you have a rooted device (because the VPN profiles are stored via the system KeyStore, so you would need to be running as a system process to add / modify them).

However, there does appear to be a third-party VPN app that at least claims to do this without a rooted device, but it doesn't appear to be open-source and I can't vouch for it (see the comments here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8915).

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