I am working on an app and it is almost finished except only one thing: I don't know how to get link speed and place it in the status bar.I am new to Java so if somebody could help me I would be very grateful. P.S. Sorry for bad English.
As the repliers suggest, your question is not very clear. You could be referring to the link connection speed (i.e up to 54 Mbps with good signal reception Wifi or up to 7.2 Mbps with full speed HSDPA) which depends on:
In this case I am afraid there is no standard Java API methods to know it, but the Android API the needed functionality:
In the other case that you refer the current (Download/Upload) data link speed this is only available at a high level, actually measuring not the link speed but the speed between your phone and a server, which can be determinted not only by your link speed but also by many other factors (all the links between your phone an server, the server itself, etc.). You could just measure "HTTP level speed" which means HTTP data speed (leaving out overhead traffic for data packets), since normally only HTTP connections are supported in every scenario (your carrier could be hiding you behind a proxy that filters everything out but HTTP traffic).
If you are using 8 level API an interesting feature called TrafficStats is also available. This lets you know the sent/received packets at a low level exchanged by your phone over the Mobile Data Link, which may offer just the information you where looking for (use these measurements with elapsed times and you can easily measure current/average used data link speed).
You cannot tell directly. You must ask the underlying operating system. For OS X you can parse the output from "/sbin/ifconfig" on the appropriate network port.
You can also write extension using JNI, and ask connection speed using C. It's just in case if you don't want to parse output from other application, but please keep in mind that this solution isn't portable.
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