"Tethering and Portable Hotspot" missing from GUI in Android 6.0
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Hi ,
We are porting Android 6.0 on our development platform and there is no setting in GUI to enable Hotspot.
I checked on Nexus6 and that has the option ""Tethering and Portable Hotspot" .
How can I enable it for my platform ?
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Jan 27, 2016, 10:30:14 AM1/27/16
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Found the solution. Issue can be closed
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Jan 30, 2016, 10:54:26 AM1/30/16
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Sharing the solution:
Added tetherable Wifi interface to "frameworks/base/core/res/res/values/config.xml" as shown below:
<!-- List of regexpressions describing the interface (if any) that represent tetherable Wifi interfaces. If the device doesn't want to support tethering over Wifi this should be empty. An example would be "softap.*" --> <string-array translatable="false" name="config_tether_wifi_regexs"> <item>wlan0</item> </string-array>
Since this is device specific configuration, I added it in overlay folder within device folder (device/xxx/overlay/frameworks/base/core/res/res/values/config.xml)