[connectivity_plus] How to check for metered connection

[PeterNjeim]

Is there a way to check for a metered connection (not simply wifi vs. cellular). Android and Windows differentiate between metered and unmetered connections, and it is user-changeable. I'm unsure if GNU/Linux, macOS, iOS, and Web do so though.

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[PeterNjeim]

Still an issue, not sure why an issue would be closed due to inactivity. Issues don't magically become resolved if there's inactivity. This bot should mark the issue as stale and leave it at that, not close the issue itself. Issues should never be closed unless they are resolved. Resolved could either mean fixed, added, or not planned.

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[shaynekellyii]

Just to clarify, I believe that iOS's NWPathMonitor only provides an isExpensive field, but any Cellular or Mobile Hotspot network is considered expensive. It's not like on Android devices where the user can specifically mark their connection as metered and set a data usage limit.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network/nwpath/2998722-isexpensive

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[PeterNjeim]

Is it possible for a wifi network to be considered expensive by an iOS device (without user intervention)? Regardless, even if that's all iOS gives us, we could still use it in this plugin. That means Windows, Android, iOS/iPadOS, and macOS are supported. NetworkManager supports it (more info). So that means most Linux distributions are covered.

I'm just now leaving the project that was working on the app that wanted this feature, so I don't personally care about this issue anymore. But it would still be nice to support detecting metered connections for future projects. Stale bot, though, will probably close this sometime in the future before it comes to fruition lol

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[Myzel394]

I'd also love to see this feature being implemented :D

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[Myzel394]

still wanted

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[miquelbeltran]

I think stale bot was closing it because the ticket was a "question" not a "feature request", with the correct labels it should leave it be.

I also think it is an interesting feature to have, could be that there is a bit of overlapping between connectivity_plus and network_info_plus with this feature.

[ua741]

Hey miquelbeltran,

~This is second issue/limitation in the package (after https://github.com/fluttercommunity/plus_plugins/issues/1472). The potential solution is trivial, but that would require us to either expose another method or make a breaking change. Personally, I would vote for introducing a breaking change.~

~We can return connection information in the following format~ ~class ConnectivityStatus {~ ~final ConnectivityResultType type;~
~/ null value indicates unknown status, helpful when underlying platform doesn't expose this.~ ~final bool? isVpn;~ ~final bool? isMetered;~ ~}~

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Edit: While updating our fork, just noticed that we are now returning list of ConnectivityResult. :)

[cjmeyer-polymorph]

Hmm