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A personal hotspot is a mobile device used as an ad-hoc wireless network router. Use this tag if your question relates to issues with programs you develop which arise when your device is being used a personal hotspot.

A personal hotspot is a mobile device used as an ad-hoc wireless network router.

When in places with no wireless Internet access, a mobile device with its own Internet connection can serve this function by transferring traffic over the local wireless network which it generates onto the mobile network where it is connected.

This is a feature of many modern mobile phone operating systems such as and .

Use this tag if your question relates to issues with programs you develop which arise when your device is being used a personal hotspot. StackOverflow is not the place to ask why your device's personal hotspot functionality is somehow handicapped.

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Disabling the Personal hotspot notification

Enabling personal hot spot pushing down the view and related subviews pushing down. How to disable the personal hotspot notification programmatically? (how can i restrict iPhone status bar to original size even when HOT SPOT is on?)
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Is personal hotspot enabled on iphone?

Is it possible to check using the iOS API whether the personal hotspot setting is enabled on the iOS device? I am cool with using the private or the public API.
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iphone - create http server and connect via hotspot

I am interested if there is a way to create a HTTP server on iPhone and connect to it via iphone hotspot, so it would no need for any other infrastructure (e.g. lan). I would like to send it some data and it will need to process that data and show…
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iOS - How to send message from hotspot (iPhone) to connected client (IoT device)

I've searched google and only found the MultipeerConnectivity framework in iOS but I don't know how I could make it work for my specific case. The flow of what I want to do is like this: Enable personal hotspot in iOS Connect to hotspot from a…
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Check status of personal hotspot whether on or not?

How to check if personal hotspot is enabled or not. I need to get this information without jail breaking. Just the status ON or Off. I even check this solution - Detect Hotspot status I am unable to understand anything.
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How to get details of devices connected to Mobile WiFi Hotspot

Following the answers of Wi-Fi tethering - how to get list of connected clients, I have got the list of devices which are connected to my Mobile WiFi Hotspot by reading /proc/net/arp file, which works for both rooted and non-rooted devices. Now, I…
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Programmatically set wifi hotspot password

I want to set my wifi hotspot password programmatically for my application so that user don't have to go to the setting menu to check their password. I am already using NEHotspotNetwork, where it set the password, but here, we need to set the…
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How to detect whether device is mobile hot-spot or a real hotspot

When connected to wifi , how to detect whether it is mobile hot-spot(i.e. tethered hotspots/ personal hotspots / instant hotspots) or a real hotspot(i.e. router modem broadband connection) with the use of wifimanager class or related class in wifi…
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Using Mac Hotspot for automated testing of mobile devices

I've used Apple's Network Link Conditioner to simulate a degraded network for my iOS device testing. But I'd like to set up some automated testing where a Mac's wifi hotspot is used as the mobile device-under-test's wifi connection. I'd like to be…
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How to get stadistics of the traffic of every device connected via my Android phone hotspot

TrafficStats.getUidRxBytes(uid) gets the traffic of an app. But, I do not know which UID is the WiFi hotspot (which is a system app). AID_WIFI's UID is 1010, so I have tried TrafficStats.getUidRxBytes(1010) when the WiFi hotspot is opened and…
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iPhone Personal Hotspot not discoverable

I'm building an application which allows to connect an other device to my iPhone's hotspot. After enabling the "Personal Hotspot" in the iPhone settings, my other device detects the hotspot... I use this command to check if the hotspot is on the…
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Launch screen doesn't fill the screen device on hotspot mode

If I activate the hotspot on my iPhone, the launch screen is moved up and in the bottom of the screen I have a padding space where I can see the wallpaper of my phone. I had the same problem on navigation controller, but I fixed it. Here I don't…
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detect hotspot enabling in iOS with private api's

ok so i want to detect weather the user has enabled hotspot/tethering or not in a iOS device. I can use private api's knowing it wont make it to the app store. i was trying to go through private api's list/ runtime headers but there are too many to…
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How to redirect new connections on connectify/m-hotspot to a WAMP page?

I am using WAMP to run a local LAN service. I also share my ethernet network using m-hotspot with anyone who connects via wifi. What I want is that whenever someone connects to the hotspot, he/she should be redirected to the login page that I made…
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Cached Mobile Hotspot

I'm wondering if there is a a solution to start a hotspot on my mobile android phone and cache the traffic to a SD card so that if two people are accessing the same request/url the hotspot will serve from a cache?
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