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How To Monitor Internet Connection in Android Using Kotlin and LiveData
Power up the offline capabilities in your apps
Introduction
One of the basic requirements of any mobile application these days is an internet connection. If you’ve used any mobile application for a while, you might have seen a small banner with a red or green background to indicate the network connection status at the top or bottom part of the screen, based on the app UI.
Implementing this feature has two advantages. First, the user is aware that they are offline so they can take appropriate action. Second, if you implement it correctly, it’ll be aesthetically pleasing with your UI.
Prerequisites
This is one of the features that seems easy to handle yet involves a deeper understanding of how things work in ConnectivityManager. Here we use ConnectivityManager to get the network connection’s information, and then we use LiveData to communicate the result to the view in a sealed class format. We’ll also use Kotlin coroutines to solve a real-time problem with Android APIs.
Before going any further, please go through the following articles if you’re not aware of any of the above-discussed concepts:
