Network Up and Down Speed in android

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Feature Request

Network Speed Detection

Motivation Behind Feature

It will be very useful for those users who would like to know the current network upload and download speed in android.

Feature Description

• Provide the current connected network upload speed
• Provide the current connected network download speed
• It will be useful to replace the usage of google speed test to validate who much speed is the internet user connected to.
• We can return 0 if the current speed cannot be determined or in cases where the internet is not reachable.

Alternatives or Workarounds

We can use the new method provided by android NetworkCapabilities

ConnectivityManager cm = (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo netInfo = cm.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    //should check null because in airplane mode it will be null
    NetworkCapabilities nc = cm.getNetworkCapabilities(cm.getActiveNetwork());
    int downSpeed = nc.getLinkDownstreamBandwidthKbps();
    int upSpeed = nc.getLinkUpstreamBandwidthKbps();

This code will help in getting the speed in kbps.

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