Checking Host Reachability/Availability in Android
<p>Ive been trying to do what i thought would be a simple reachability of host test at the beginning of my apps internet ventures, but documentation isnt helping and neither are examples found at various places, ive tried many solutions with no luck, so if anyone could point me in the direction of a definitive way to check a hosts availability with android that be awesome, just need it to toggle a bool to true if the host can be reached</p>

<p>im using API8 if that makes much difference to this process, and must cater for non-rooted devices so the inetaddress.isReachable is out</p>
