Check for internet connection availability in Swift
I give you better way...
You must create a class with this code
import Foundation
public class Reachability {
class func isConnectedToNetwork()->Bool{
var Status:Bool = false
let url = NSURL(string: "http://google.com/")
let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url!)
request.HTTPMethod = "HEAD"
request.cachePolicy = NSURLRequestCachePolicy.ReloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData
request.timeoutInterval = 10.0
var response: NSURLResponse?
var data = NSURLConnection.sendSynchronousRequest(request, returningResponse: &response, error: nil) as NSData?
if let httpResponse = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse {
if httpResponse.statusCode == 200 {
Status = true
}
}
return Status
}
}
And then you can check internet connection anywhere in your project using this code:
if Reachability.isConnectedToNetwork() == true {
println("Internet connection OK")
} else {
println("Internet connection FAILED")
}
Very easy!
*This way is based on Vikram Pote answer!
As mentioned in the comments, although its possible to use Objective-C libraries in Swift, I wanted a more pure Swift solution. The existing Apple Reachability class and other third party libraries seemed to be too complicated for me to translate to Swift. I Googled some more and I came across this article which shows a simple method to check for network availability. I set out to translate this to Swift. I hit many snags but thanks to Martin R from StackOverflow, I managed to resolve them and finally get a workable solution in Swift. Here is the code.
import Foundation
import SystemConfiguration
public class Reachability {
class func isConnectedToNetwork() -> Bool {
var zeroAddress = sockaddr_in(sin_len: 0, sin_family: 0, sin_port: 0, sin_addr: in_addr(s_addr: 0), sin_zero: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
zeroAddress.sin_len = UInt8(sizeofValue(zeroAddress))
zeroAddress.sin_family = sa_family_t(AF_INET)
let defaultRouteReachability = withUnsafePointer(&zeroAddress) {
SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithAddress(nil, UnsafePointer($0)).takeRetainedValue()
}
var flags: SCNetworkReachabilityFlags = 0
if SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(defaultRouteReachability, &flags) == 0 {
return false
}
let isReachable = (flags & UInt32(kSCNetworkFlagsReachable)) != 0
let needsConnection = (flags & UInt32(kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired)) != 0
return isReachable && !needsConnection
}
}
For Swift > 3.0
public class Reachability {
public func isConnectedToNetwork() -> Bool {
var zeroAddress = sockaddr_in()
zeroAddress.sin_len = UInt8(MemoryLayout<sockaddr_in>.size)
zeroAddress.sin_family = sa_family_t(AF_INET)
guard let defaultRouteReachability = withUnsafePointer(to: &zeroAddress, {
$0.withMemoryRebound(to: sockaddr.self, capacity: 1) {
SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithAddress(nil, $0)
}
}) else {
return false
}
var flags: SCNetworkReachabilityFlags = []
if !SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(defaultRouteReachability, &flags) {
return false
}
if flags.isEmpty {
return false
}
let isReachable = flags.contains(.reachable)
let needsConnection = flags.contains(.connectionRequired)
return (isReachable && !needsConnection)
}
}
This works for both 3G and WiFi connections. I've also uploaded it to my GitHub with a working example.