hello, Lefko!

how can I help you today?

hey Mark

The company that I work for has a B2B app that is used with wifi only

the connection in the stores where the app is used can sometimes be spotty

what seems to be happening is that the wifi doesn't disconnect

I mean the connection doesn't disconnect

but practically speaking there is no connection at all (for all intents and purposes)

no requests make it through they all timeout

so first of all do you know of an event that the os broadcasts that would happen if the device sudenly has extremely slow connection speeds

I am not aware that there is such a broadcast

darn

ok do you have a suggestion for me then?

in terms of what?

perhaps a wifi heartbeat monitor or somehting like that?

why do you proactively need to know about the problem?

as opposed to simply dealing with the timeout when it happens?

after all, a heartbeat is simply a way of getting timeouts to happen more frequently

right,

yes that is a fair point,

if you need to let the user know about the issue, sooner than you might otherwise find out, then a heartbeat might be appropriate

basically my higher ups want a message displayed that there is no connection available currently and t disable certain ui elements in that case

what sort of communications is this? HTTP? something else?

yes

standard PUT GET etc

I mean POST

haha

do you know of a wifi heartbeat library so that I dont have to reinvent the wheel?

no, sorry

another approach would be to establish a separate long-term connection with the server (e.g., WebSocket), and see how that behaves

if that fails during your connectivity problems, then you could just detect that failure, instead of doing a periodic heartbeat

wow. that might work as we are in the process of adding a websocket for other reasons anyway. thanks!

enjoy the rest of your day!

you too!