Question

According to this tutorial the only way to disconnect the vpn service is to use the ‘system-managed dialog’. This can be done manually by dragging down the notification bar and selecting it from there, however this is not a good solution for my problem.

I need to be able to bring this dialog up from within my app when a ‘disconnect’ button is pressed, however I can’t find any documentation on how to do this.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Right now the only public and recommended way to disconnect is unfortunately just through the notification. The functions for disconnecting or even bringing up the dialog are otherwise hidden unfortunately.

Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they can’t be accessed, but that way lies much pain. I haven’t tried this in this specific case, but I have done this in the past, way back, with the music player to find out what was playing (for audio scrobbling). So if you absolutely must find a way to do this, no matter how hacky, then you could try this, but keep in mind that ‘ere be dragons – this involves accessing a private API that you are not supposed to. That API could change on a whim between any two given builds of android (not just platform versions either), because it is supposed to be private and internal. You would need to make your code very resilient to failure here, and frankly it’ll never be anything more than hacky and a PITA.

Right, all that said, see line 171 in this

That’s what you want to do. Except you can’t see the things you need, right? So you need this AIDL for the service (and possibly a bit of reflection too, I forget – haven’t done this in a long time).

This blog post describes something similar, though not in much detail. It’s hard to find things talking about, since it is an incredibly discouraged practice.