iphone how to check the Airplane mode ?

Question

HI ,

i want to check wether Airplane mode is on or not .. how to check that ?

thanks + how to check that the user is using WIFI or GPRS OR EDGE . how to differentiate ??

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you can check specifically for airplane mode but the reachability example from the iphone adc website enables you to check if the iphone has access to the internet.

Answer 2

If you just want show notification, when user is in airplane mode, then it's enough to enable SBUsesNetwork property in your app's plist file. When your code is using network, user is prompted to turn off Airplane mode automatically.

See e.g. this post.

Answer 3

This answers the second part of the question - how to tell what type of network the user is on (Wifi or 3g/edge). It uses the Reachability code from Apple. Put this in your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method in your app delegate:

Reachability *curReach = [Reachability reachabilityWithHostName: @"www.apple.com"];
NetworkStatus netStatus = [curReach currentReachabilityStatus];
switch (netStatus)
{
    case NotReachable:
    {
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Network Status" message:@"Please note: Network access is required to retrieve images." delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];
        [alert show];
        [alert release];
        break;
    }
    case ReachableViaWiFi:
    case ReachableViaWWAN:
    {
        break;
    }
}