Re: home screen icon to connect to wi-fi network

Enrico Papaloma <enrico@papaloma.net> wrote:

Instead of waiting for the phone to find the network and connect to it,
especially when there is a long list of available networks that have been
already connected to, is there a way to make a home screen icon to quickly
connect to a definite wi-fi network ap (without using the settings)?

I doubt your finger is faster to click an icon, and run a process to
select a wifi hotspot, than the scanning to determine which wifi hotspot
is within reach and has the strongest signal.  Of course, that assume
automatic hotspot connect, not where you have to authorize the connect.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/wifi-network-selection

If you are at home, your phone should automatically switch to the wifi
modem in your house, not try to use a wifi hotspot across the country
where you were vacationing up until yesterday.

Personally I don't want auto-connect except for my home wifi cable
modem.  Anyone can pretend they're a hotspot to which you were connected
before, or pretend they're the hotspot where you are, like running their
own hotspot named StarbucksFreeWifi at a Starbucks shop.  I prefer to
get prompted to allow a hotspot connect rather than allow automatically.

https://news.uthsc.edu/announcements/cybersecurity-tip-of-the-week-how-to-disable-wi-fi-auto-connect-and-bluetooth/

Except for your home wifi hotspot, auto-connect should be disabled for
the other hotspots saved on your phone (for those you haven't
deleted/forgotten, because you're not going back there again).  If only
your home wifi hotspot has auto-connect enabled, and the rest don't (you
get prompted to allow those), the auto-connect to your home wifi should
be extremely fast, and faster then your finger.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pw.wifishortcut

That puts an icon on your screen to quickly jump to wifi settings
instead of having to drop the shade to navigate through the settings
menus to the wifi settings.  Never tried it since Android 10 minimum is
required, and I'm on an ancient Android 8 phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.opengait.wifishortcuts

Maybe that gives you what you want.  It defines a widget to a specified
wifi network, and you can set the widget to connect when tapped.  No
idea if it works on your phone (no Android version mentioned).  This
says it works back to Android 5, was last updated in 2020, but that
doesn't mean it will work on whatever Android you have.