Ionic : Hybrid Mobile App Development

Network

The network device plugin helps in identifying the network on which the device is connected and listening to network change events. The $cordovaNetwork is a service of the ngCordova module, which exposes multiple methods and events for managing the network.

The command line to be executed using the Ionic/Cordova CLI is:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-network-information

The methods available under this service are:

• Method Name: getNetwork()
  • Returns: The Connection object (this property determines the connection state and connection type)

    The possible connection types can be:

    Type	Description
    Connection.UNKNOWN	Unknown connection
    Connection.ETHERNET	Ethernet connection
    Connection.WIFI	Wi-Fi connection
    Connection.CELL_2G	Cell 2G ...