DataStatus is a simple background service for Android, and a Mac OS X menubar widget, which allows you to see what state the data connection is in your Android phone. You are probably thinking, why the hell would you want that? I use it when I am on a train with a usually dodgy 3G signal and have my laptop tethered to my phone. It is quite useful to know whether a website isn't loading because it is down or whether you just have a poor network connection.
First download the Android server, and start it up:
Next download a widget, currently there is only one available for OS X, but feel free to contribute one for your platform!
The widget is currently hardcoded to use the IP 192.168.43.1, the IP used when tethering with your phone. If you know Cocoa programming, please suggest how to create a preference pane to enter a custom IP :)
At the moment there is only an OS X menubar widget, however the service exposes a simple HTTP API, so it should be easy to do the same for other platforms. The IP address of the phone is currently hardcoded, however I would prefer if this uses UDP multicasting. I had a bit of a play about with this, and it appears that this isn't supported when tethering to the Android device (over regular wifi it is fine). If anyone knows a way around this it would be most appreciated :)
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Tests would also be good, there are currently none... :)
DataStatus by Luca Spiller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at github.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://github.com/lucaspiller/DataStatus.
