Hi all, I'm using the custom url plugin and I was wondering if there was a way to display a popup message when a device (android or iPhone) is not connected to the internet. The popup message should simply inform the user that this screen is only accessible with an internet connection. Thanks

You could make your background say something like "This page uses an internet connection. If you still see this page, confirm your phone can receive data"....or something like that. Then if the screen loads it will cover the background. -Shane

Thanks Shane for the suggestion. I just checked in an android device and if the internet connection is off I get a page that says the following. "Web page not available. The web page at htt://....... might be temporarily down or...." and so on

The ios version already has one, it says there was a problem downloading .... please check internet connection. If you want to add your own add these 2 methods to the .m - (BOOL) connectedToNetwork { Reachability *r = [Reachability reachabilityWithHostName:@"www.facebook.com"]; NetworkStatus internetStatus = [r currentReachabilityStatus]; BOOL internet; if ((internetStatus != ReachableViaWiFi) && (internetStatus != ReachableViaWWAN)) { internet = NO; UIAlertView* noWifi = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Unable to load web page" message:@"This screen requires an internet connection." delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil]; [noWifi show]; [noWifi release]; //[self navLeftTap]; } else { internet = YES; } return internet; } - (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex { // the user clicked one of the OK/Cancel buttons NSLog(@"clicking"); if (buttonIndex == 0) { [self navLeftTap]; } } then add this to the view did load under super viewdidload [self connectedToNetwork]; then search for this [self showAlert:nil:errorInfo:0]; and comment it out like this //[self showAlert:nil:errorInfo:0]; This stops the error about internet connection. Adds your own message plus when you press OK it sends you back to the previous screen.

Great tip @Kittsy. Definitely going to use it.

@Kittsy - great code. Thanks.

Thank you @Kittsy this is exactly what I was looking for. Is there also a way to do this for android?

@rotsos Sorry mate iOS guru only at the moment. Try asking a few of the guys making android plugins

Yes I will try that. Thanks again for the code you have provided for iOS

Hi, I finally got this to work in Android by making some code modifications in the BT_screen_customURL.java. Basically before it loads the contents of the URL I check to see whether there is an internet connection first. If there is a connection then it loads as normally otherwise I show an alert. the code that needs to be modified is the following: //figure out what to load... if(dataURL.length() > 1){ String useUrl = BT_strings.mergeBTVariablesInString(dataURL); BT_debugger.showIt(activityName + ": loading URL from: " + useUrl); this.loadUrl(useUrl); } else { BT_debugger.showIt(activityName + ": No URL found? Not loading web-view!"); showAlert(getString(R.string.errorTitle), getString(R.string.errorLoadingScreen)); } All I did here was to replace "this.loadUrl(useUrl)" with the following: ConnectivityManager conMgr = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService (Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE); // ARE WE CONNECTED TO THE NET if (conMgr.getActiveNetworkInfo() != null && conMgr.getActiveNetworkInfo().isAvailable() && conMgr.getActiveNetworkInfo().isConnected()) { this.loadUrl(useUrl); } else { showAlert("Alert","To view this section you need an internet connection"); } Additionally you have to import this at the beginning of the file: import android.net.ConnectivityManager

@Rotso well done pal. And an even bigger well done for posting the actual solution, a few to many people on forums don't bother revisiting the post they asked the question in and posting the solution when they have found it. Happy apping