Question

I have few queries aboubt network statistics for application development on windows phone.

1)Is there any way(APIS), we can scan wifi AP in windows?
If it is connected to AP how to get SSID,BSSID and MAC address?

2)how to get CELL ID and local information?

3)Application Layer (TCP, UDP & ICP throughput, latency, etc)?

4) Bluetooth apis for device connected and device?

I was finding very info from msdn.
like Bluetooth connect and discover able devices.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj207007(v=vs.105).aspx

coming to (wifi,cellular,ethernet) they have mention common class networkinformatio will it be helpful?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202867(v=vs.105).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/microsoft.phone.net.networkinformation(v=vs.105).aspx

Answer 1

Short answers to big questions:

1. You cannot find WiFi SSIDs and Mac address directly from the WP8 SDK.

2. You cannot get information on the physical layout of the cellular netwrok directly from the WP8 SDK.

3. You cannot get network transport statistics directly from the WP8 SDK.

4. You can use Bluetooth APIs to enumerate over paired devices and open BT-SPP sockets.