[android-developers] Permissions, checking network connectivity and the LVL

This is a bit of a rant...

I would have expected to see an API to gives me a single YES/NO answer
if there is currently network connectivity.

boolean isThereNetwork()

But unless I am blind, I have to get the ConnectivityManager object
and query it. And furthermore, I must specify a permission
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE to do so.

I am sorry, but this is taking the permissions a bit far -- I can
understand having the permission if you want to find out all kinds of
stuff about the network, but simply to check the connectivity status
should have no security implications. Unless, again, I am missing
something.

This came up for me in the context of the LVL stuff -- I want to skip
the LVL check if there is no network connectivity -- but alas, I
cannot do this as I don't want to pollute my app with yet another
permission just for the LVL. So I have to do the LVL library connect
and basically wait 10 seconds for it to tell me that it couldn't reach
the LVL server. One would think the LVL library would check for the
connectivity state before trying to connect, but that would be too
simple, I suppose.

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