Knowing the status of the network connections on a mobile device is crucial for modern applications. Aside from important gains with power-saving, it also allows for a much better user experience. Knowing which types of network connections are available allows you to make important decisions regarding data sync, costs, and priority of information queues.

For each platform, status detection of the different connection types is supported, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMAX, wired Ethernet, or VPN.

To help manage this information, the com.softwareag.mobile.md.net.ConnectivityStatusRequester class is available.