title: Internet Connectivity check in Android
body: <p>I need to check whether internet is available or not in Android, so I have tried using the following function:</p>
  
  <pre><code>boolean b_IsConnect = isNetworkAvailable();
  private boolean isNetworkAvailable() {
    ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo activeNetworkInfo = connectivityManager
      .getActiveNetworkInfo();
    return activeNetworkInfo != null;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I also added the required permissions in the manifest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" /&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" &gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/&gt;
  &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it still throws exceptions:</p>
  
  <pre><code>05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.housedisplay/com.housedisplay.RssActivity}: java.lang.SecurityException: ConnectivityService: Neither user 10038 nor current process has android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE.
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1736)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1752)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:123)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:993)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:126)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3997)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:841)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:599)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481): Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: ConnectivityService: Neither user 10038 nor current process has android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE.
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1322)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1276)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.net.IConnectivityManager$Stub$Proxy.getActiveNetworkInfo(IConnectivityManager.java:446)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.net.ConnectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.java:256)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at com.housedisplay.RssActivity.isNetworkAvailable(RssActivity.java:218)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at com.housedisplay.RssActivity.onCreate(RssActivity.java:59)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1048)
  05-02 16:05:26.226: E/AndroidRuntime(481):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1700)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can you tell me what's happening over here?</p>