Enabling WiFi on Android Emulator

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salman khalid picture salman khalid · Oct 24, 2011 · Viewed 153.5k times · Source

How to enable WiFi on Android emulator? I have tried to find this but everyone is confusing WiFi with 3G.

Answer

salman khalid picture salman khalid · Oct 28, 2011

Wifi is not available on the emulator if you are using below of API level 25.

When using an AVD with API level 25 or higher, the emulator provides a simulated Wi-Fi access point ("AndroidWifi"), and Android automatically connects to it.

More Information: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator.html#wifi

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