Android - Sign into Wi-Fi network
Ever been notified of a WiFi login action to access internet via Android? The underlying infrastructure to enforce the sign in policy before having access to internet has been in place for ages and is not something specific to Android. In networking terminology, this is called a network with a Captive portal where in any access to internet is denied and the users are redirected to a captive portal either to sign in with a room number and name in a Hotel WiFi or accept terms and conditions of a Starbucks WiFi or any other policy managed by the WiFi administrators. In old days, this wasn't a big deal as user's attempt to access internet via browsers is any ways redirected to the portal. This was good enough. However, with new technologies, applications running in the background like a weather application or a stock ticker in Mac OS's dashboard needed internet access as soon as the device is connected to a WiFi. They don't have a smart logic to detect captive po...