Wifi AP configuration for Android TV

An Android TV application used to configure your Wifi Access Point (for Android L only, this wont work on Android M)

This application uses private API for enabling/disabling Access Point. It may not be working on your Android TV

Requirements

Android TV 5.0 (sdk 21) or Android TV 5.1.1 (sdk 22)

Pros & Cons

Pros :

• address the lack of Wifi AP configuration in Google TV Settings
• built with Google Leanback framework
• interface very similar to Google TvSettings

Cons :

• uses private APIs that may not be available on devices
• doesnt work on some devices (see incompatible device list) - require AOSP patches to fix Wifi Tethering (didnt work on first releases)
• doesnt work on Android M due to android.provider.Settings.ACTION_MANAGE_WRITE_SETTINGS intent which is required to be exposed by a System Activity. On Android TV, Google Settings applications is not present, only TvSettings application is installed which doesnt have this intent

Compatible devices

• Bbox Miami (5.1.1)

Incompatible devices

• Sony Bravia 4K (5.1.1)

There seems to have a System service restarting Wifi automatically every second preventing AP to setup :

I/BluetoothResetService_v3.11: check wifi and bt status
I/BluetoothResetService_v3.11: checkWifiBtStatus
E/BluetoothResetService_nat_v1.8: run ioctl  fail : Network is down (100)
I/BluetoothResetService_nat_v1.8: bt driver status = 1, if reture 0, bt framework need reset
I/BluetoothResetService_v3.11: bt and wifi Status is normal, nothing to do

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• Philips 32PFH5500 (5.1.1)
• Freebox Mini 4K (5.0.2)
• Nexus Player Android 5.0/5.1.1

We have an error coming from AP configuration at netd level on these devices :

E/WifiStateMachine: Exception in softap start java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: command '50 softap fwreload wlan0 AP' failed with '501 50 SoftAP command has failed'
E/WifiStateMachine: Exception in softap re-start java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: command '52 softap fwreload wlan0 STA' failed with '501 52 SoftAP command has failed'

Not tested

• Nvidia Shield (5.1.1)

External Lib

• accesspoint library by Daniel Martí from https://github.com/mvdan/accesspoint for managing access point and retrieving connected client
• leanback-v17 with some example provided here : https://github.com/googlesamples/androidtv-Leanback and https://github.com/stari4ek/androidtv-Leanback

License

Copyright 2016 Bertrand Martel

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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