Android Tutorial => Check data connection

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This method is to check data connection by ping certain IP or Domain name.

public Boolean isDataConnected() {
    try {
        Process p1 = java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ping -c 1 8.8.8.8");
        int returnVal = p1.waitFor();
        boolean reachable = (returnVal==0);
        return reachable;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return false;
}

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