Is it possible to reliably detect which wifi network I'm on?

Question

I am writing an android app and trying to figure out if there is a reliable way to determine when the phone is on a specific wifi network.

For example, I want to perform certain actions only when connected to the home wifi.

Does anyone know if it's possible?

Answer 1

Yes, there is a way for this on both, android and iOS/iPhone.

On Android, you need to use this method in the end: android.net.wifi.WifiInfo.getSSID

On iPhone it's a completely different world. You can find a good description of how to do it here: iPhone get SSID without private library

Answer 2

you can get the SSID of the current wifi-connection with :

WifiManager mng = (WifiManager)context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
String currentSSID = mng.getConnectionInfo().getSSID();