Check if internet connection availabile in swift [duplicate]

Question

Is there an Apple framework bundle to detect if there's an internet connection? Currently my application crashes when it tries to geolocate the user's position without an internet connection.

/*inside locationManager didUpdateLocations method*/
var currentLocation:CLLocation? = locations[0] as? CLLocation
geocoder = CLGeocoder()
//Crashes on line below when there isn't an internet connection
//Need to add function to check if internet connection is live 
//Before running reverseGeocodeLocation
geocoder.reverseGeocodeLocation (currentLocation,handleGeocode)

I'm a bit new to swift and ios programming - my apologies.

Answer 1

Not a full-fledged network checking library but I found this simple method for checking the network availability. I managed to translate it to Swift and here the final code.

import Foundation
import SystemConfiguration

public class Reachability {

    class func isConnectedToNetwork() -> Bool {

        var zeroAddress = sockaddr_in(sin_len: 0, sin_family: 0, sin_port: 0, sin_addr: in_addr(s_addr: 0), sin_zero: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
        zeroAddress.sin_len = UInt8(sizeofValue(zeroAddress))
        zeroAddress.sin_family = sa_family_t(AF_INET)

        let defaultRouteReachability = withUnsafePointer(&zeroAddress) {
            SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithAddress(nil, UnsafePointer($0)).takeRetainedValue()
        }

        var flags: SCNetworkReachabilityFlags = 0
        if SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(defaultRouteReachability, &flags) == 0 {
            return false
        }

        let isReachable = (flags & UInt32(kSCNetworkFlagsReachable)) != 0
        let needsConnection = (flags & UInt32(kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired)) != 0

        return (isReachable && !needsConnection) ? true : false
    }

}

It works for both 3G and WiFi connections. I've also uploaded it to my Github with a working example. If you're looking for a simple way to check for network availability purely in Swift, you can use it.

Answer 2

Using Babatunde's code sample but here is an updated version for Swift 2.0 and error handling: EDIT: Also changed the URL for Google as HTTPS for iOS 9. EDIT2: Original article: http://www.brianjcoleman.com/tutorial-check-for-internet-connection-in-swift/

import Foundation
import SystemConfiguration

public class Reachability {

    // Check if internet connection is available

    class func isConnectedToNetwork() -> Bool {

        var status:Bool = false

        let url = NSURL(string: "https://google.com")
        let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url!)
        request.HTTPMethod = "HEAD"
        request.cachePolicy = NSURLRequestCachePolicy.ReloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData
        request.timeoutInterval = 10.0

        var response:NSURLResponse?

        do {
            let _ = try NSURLConnection.sendSynchronousRequest(request, returningResponse: &response) as NSData?
        }
        catch let error as NSError {
            print(error.localizedDescription)
        }

        if let httpResponse = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse {
            if httpResponse.statusCode == 200 {
                status = true
            }
        }
        return status
   }
}