Category: Android

Android has the great option to let you Tether your connection via wifi, but as developer you got little to none control over this mechanism.

Therefore i wrote a class to correct this: WifiApManager.

With this class you can check the current Status of the Hotspot, enable/disable it, get/set the current AP configuration and also get the list of currently connected clients.

I also made an example to demonstrate it’s capabilities:

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When you want to download a Image from the Web and Display it in Android in a ImageView i encountered two different approaches:

1. Download the Image and Display it:

Drawable DownloadDrawable(String url, String src_name) throws java.io.IOException {
	return Drawable.createFromStream(((java.io.InputStream) new java.net.URL(url).getContent()), src_name);
}
 
[...]
 
try {
	Drawable drw = DownloadDrawable("http://www.google.de/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo1w.png", "src")
	ImageView1.setImageDrawable(drw);
} catch (IOException e) {
	// Something went wrong here
}

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