Ability to configure uploads on select SSIDs (or simplify metered connectivity)

[ferdiga]

Actual behaviour

-upload starts on active WIFI connection

Expected behaviour

-it should be possible to exclude certain URL's SSIDs like -- Hot Spots -- Internet services in airplanes (Emirates) -- other "expensive" (money, restricted bandwidth) services

Steps to reproduce

Environment data

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[tobiasKaminsky]

We have a check if the wifi is unmetered, which is defined by android: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/NetworkCapabilities.html

In which metered wifi have you experienced this?

[ferdiga]

Emirates OnAIR

[tobiasKaminsky]

Strange, as far as I read this should be prevented. Maybe the wifi is not correctly recognized by android as a metered wifi. Do you have to login or see a captive login portal right after connecting to the wifi?

All in all, I doubt we can do much here as we have to rely on android wifi detection. cc @mario if he has another idea?

[ferdiga]

one has to login providing an email address and credit card info for the purchase of 500MB.

Emirates offers 10MB free and 500MB for 1USD.

how can I see if the wifi is metered ?

my remark of preventing certain URLS is obviously nonsense - it should prevent upload for certain SSID'S

[tobiasKaminsky]

how can I see if the wifi is metered ?

I do not think an user can see this as this is an internal state for android.

Maintaining a SSID blacklist is possible but much for work as each user has to "block" a wifi, whereas the approach with metered vs. unmetered should work out of the box.

[AndyScherzinger]

It is a user setting within Android. Simply go to: Settings - Data Usages - wifi tab - Network restrictions - mark the ssid as metered - you are done.

So imho nothing to do here since this would then be the ssid blacklist :)

[ferdiga]

Thank's for the advice. So I checked

• Emirates OnAir was not marked as "metered"
• the hot spot mentioned above was marked as "metered"

But does anyone think that a "normal" user is able to find/set this? For example http://www.pcworld.com/article/3046538/android/6-ways-to-make-the-most-of-wi-fi-on-your-android-device.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/3026457/android/8-ways-to-tame-your-data-hogging-android-phone.html

[mario]

Android detects some of the Wifi's as metered anyway without you marking is as metered.

[tobiasKaminsky]

So what to do here? I think it is enough what we have, although it is quite complicated to find, but it is the android way of doing it. Bonus is that with this setting all apps will obey the wifi as metered and not only nc.

[joshtrichards]

Related: #270