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How to get the remote device Ipaddress, host name etc for a local only hotspot in android

In Android 12, which API or methodology should we use, in order to get the IP address, hostname, MAC address of a remote device that is connected to our hotspot which is of local only hotspot type. ...
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How to enable the building of the "Hotspot & tethering" settings app in AOSP?

I have an AOSP build for my Android 10 device. The 'Network & internet' UI is missing the 'Hotspot & tethering' settings app. (Wifi is working, but only as an upstream interface.) Which file ...
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iOS detect if device is used as wifi hotspot

I need to find out from my app, if the current device is used as personal wifi hotspot. And if there is any way to know which is the iPhone local ip (on the hotspot network). I found that the iPhone ...
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List of connected hotspot devices

I would like to retrieve the IP addresses of all devices connected to the WiFi hotspot of my smartphone. In Android 10 and below, I was able to get this list by executing the following piece of code: ...
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Start hotspot in Android 10+ using Xamarin Forms

hoping you can help, i have tried absolutely everything to get this working. I tried to adapt other code which apparently works in android studio to work in Xamarin. I have reached a point i cant pass....
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Managing WiFi Tethering in Android SDK 29

Does Android SDK 29 allow managing of WiFi Tethering? My app needs to be able to turn on/off the WiFi Tethering inside the app.
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How to open Hotspot & tethering setting screen and after that open security popup screen programmatically? [duplicate]

Here I want to just open Hotspot & tethering screen from button click, so user can create Hotspot manually. I have searched a lot but no any implicit intent found for go that screen. Also Can I ...
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Why I can't see the hotspot traffic?

I want to know how it can be possible to manage the traffic of the clients connected to my android hotspot. The two mainly features I want to achieve are: Deny/allow the internet access to clients. ...
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How do mobile phone companies detect if you are sharing your 3G/4G internet connection?

I just spoke with a phone company in Denmark, that offer "Free 3G/4G", on the phone, but they have a limitation if you create a hotspot and share the connection, this limitation is on 50GB. How do ...
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Is there a way to read/write tethering (wifi) on an android phone programmatically?

Is there any way to read/write Pre-defined default configure Mobile hotspot data such as Network name, security, password by programmatically. Thanks in advance
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Android network bridge between USB tethering & WiFi hotspot interfaces

I have following hw environment: - dev board; - Android device; - Ubuntu laptop; Android connected to the board by USB cable. Laptop connected to Android dev by wifi hotspot. From Android I able to ...
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How to detect any enabled hotspot in iOS with private APIs

I want to detect whether the user has enabled hotspot/tethering on an iOS device. I can use private APIs, knowing it wont make it to the app store. I was trying to go through private APIs list/runtime ...
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How to check Android devices for WiFi or hotspot support

Does anyone know how an app may check whether a device supports WiFi mobile hotspot/WiFi tethering? For example, my Android phone has this functionality and you can tether the 3G connection, while my ...
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