Detect Wifi vs 3g/4g Internet

[kenroy.roach]

I am building an app that requires a sizable download after install. As such I would only want the user to perform this over wifi or at least give the user the option based on their settings. After searching all the forum topics I could there seems to be a way for ios but not android. This one workaround (http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... 45#p127253) will not work since it doesn't take into account VPN or the same provider supplying both wifi and 3g. Does anyone have a solution for this?

[AxWald]

Hi.

Why not simply asking the user?
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Hi pal. I need to download half the internez for this app to be workink fully. Is it good time now?

Yep, go on! - Nope, we'll do later! - Huh?
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Have fun!

[rblackmore245]

Yes this is the problem I had when coding my App, in the end I had to perform the workaround solution I found and then ask the user and alert them that I would be downloading over a Gig of data.

[FourthWorld]

A gigabyte is a lot to ask of the user to dedicate to a single app. On many phones that would be 1/16th of the total storage space on the device, and more than 1/8th of available space.

Could any of that media be streamed?

[rblackmore245]

Nope Unfortunately the app had to work totally offline, I had major issues with downloading this amount of data and some kind of memory leak, so in the end I had to split the files into 10 meg sections.