How to find the status of VPN connection through framework APIs or any other efficient method?

Question

So far:

I found the following solutions

1. Using Broadcastreceiver

   The broadcast receiver is deprecated from ICS

2. Using Ping or Traceroute

   It's definitely going to take lots of time and its not efficient

3. Polling for DNS server changes

   It's definitely going to take lots of time and its not efficient

4. Using ip-address

   Even though it won't take much time depending on the network connection it may vary

My conclusion:

So far all the solutions I found are either not efficient or not so reliable.

My questions:

If VPN is connected in android device then android OS must be aware of it.

Are there any public android framework APIs to read it because finding it locally is most efficient and reliable solution ?

Are there any other efficient and reliable ways to achieve it (like integrating a C or C plus plus library with NDK)?

Note:

I couldn't find any custom broadcast senders/AIDL from OpenVPN for Android as well

Answer 1

Have you used - VpnService

As per documentation -

Prepare to establish a VPN connection. This method returns 'null' if the VPN application 
is 'already prepared'.

From here-

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnService.html#prepare(android.content.Context)

 Intent intent = VpnService.prepare(getApplicationContext());
  if (intent == null) {
    // this means there is already a prepared VPN connection
  }