Appears to be broken on Android 8.1

[hhff]

Hi There!

Thanks for all of your hard work - I really appreciate it! I did my best to create an exact bug report! Hope this helps!

1. I've just booted the ExampleAPI25 app on an Android Emulator running Android 8.1.

I'm seeing some strange behavior:

Weird behavior 1:

• [ ] Ensure network is "Forgotten" from the Android Settings
• [ ] I click "Get connection status" and it says "You're not connected :("
• [ ] I click Current SSID and it says "AndroidWifi" (shouldn't this be null as I'm not connected)? 👎

Weird behavior 2:

• [ ] I scroll up to "Sign device into a specific network"
• [ ] I enter "AndroidWifi" into the SSID input
• [ ] I put "password" in the password input
• [ ] I click "connect" and it says Network in range :)
• [ ] I wait 10 seconds
• [ ] I scroll down and click "Get connection status" and it says "You're not connected :(" 👎
• [ ] I exit the app check the Android settings, and it says "No Network" 👎

2. However, running ExampleAPI25 app on on Android 7.1.1:

Expected behavior 1:

• [ ] Ensure network is "Forgotten" from the Android Settings
• [ ] I click "Get connection status" and it says "You're not connected :("
• [ ] I click Current SSID and it says "unknown ssid" ✅

Expected behavior 2:

• [ ] I scroll up to "Sign device into a specific network"
• [ ] I enter "AndroidWifi" into the SSID input
• [ ] I put "password" in the password input
• [ ] I click "connect" and it says Network in range :)
• [ ] I wait 10 seconds
• [ ] I scroll down and click "Get connection status" and it says "You're connected :)" ✅
• [ ] I exit the app check the Android settings, and yes, we are connected to "AndroidWifi"! ✅

I hope this helps! Please let me know how I can help further debug.

[hhff]

FWIW - it appears this issue would mean that anyone using this Library & shipping their app to Android 8.1 devices are broken, I think?

[bondparkerbond]

@hhff You can't use the emulator to connect to wifi networks with your computer. Try this on a physical device and it should work.

[inf3rnus]

I've been experiencing this strange issue on Android 9 devices where when calling the getSSID() function, the value is returned as . However, if I call it a second time in a completely separate render cycle, it returns the SSID. Same thing happens with the wifi list function, except it return [] and the list respectively. Any idea what could be going on?