Android Question B4A failed to connect to Esp8266 with hidden ssid

[hung]

I used MLwifi 3.07 to make wifi connection in B4A but found the following problem
- B4A app shows connected successfully but Android phone's wifi setting is still showing old ssid
- then in 2-3 seconds Android phone disconnect wifi and start searching to saved prefered ssid

Any one help?

B4A code as below

Sub Process_Globals
    'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
    'These variables can be accessed from all modules.
    Dim wifi As MLwifi
    Dim scan As MLScan 
End Sub

Sub Globals
    'These global variables will be redeclared each time the activity is created.
    'These variables can only be accessed from this module.

    Private btn_connect As Button
    Private edt_pass As EditText
    Private edt_ssid As EditText
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    'Do not forget to load the layout file created with the visual designer. For example:
    Activity.LoadLayout("main")
    
    If Not (wifi.isWifiConnected) Then
        wifi.EnableWifi(True)
    End If
    scan.startScan("wifiscan", True)   
    
End Sub

Sub Activity_Resume

End Sub

Sub Activity_Pause (UserClosed As Boolean)

End Sub

Sub btn_connect_Click
    wifi.disconnectWifiAP()
    Sleep(1000)
    Msgbox("Start connecting", "wifi")
    If wifi.saveWifiAP(edt_ssid.Text, 2, edt_pass.Text, False) = True Then
        If wifi.connectWifiAP(edt_ssid.Text ) = True Then
        'If wifi.isWifiConnected() Then
            Msgbox("Connected", edt_ssid.Text )
        Else
            Msgbox("Failed to connect", edt_ssid.Text)
        End If
    Else
        Msgbox("Failed to save AP", edt_ssid.text)
    End If
    
    Msgbox(wifi.WifiSSID, "Current SSID")
End Sub

Sub wifiscan_ScanDone(results() As String, count As Int)
    Dim lstr_ap As String
    
    For i = 0 To count - 1
        lstr_ap = lstr_ap & ":" & results(i).Replace(",","    ")
    Next
    Msgbox(lstr_ap, count)
End Sub

ESP8266 (NodeMCU) code as below

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>

// WiFi Definitions
const char* ssid = "Esp01-1901";
const char* password = "Esp01-1901"; 
const char* value = "";

WiFiServer server(80); // default ip http://192.168.4.1:80

void setup() {

   Serial.begin(115200);
   delay(10);

   WiFi.mode(WIFI_AP);
   WiFi.softAP(ssid, password, 1, 1);
 
   server.begin();
}

void loop() {
  // Check of client has connected
  WiFiClient client = server.available();
  if(!client) {
    return;
  }

  // Read the request line
  String request = client.readStringUntil('\r');
  Serial.println(request);
  client.flush();
}

 

[Erel]

Why aren't you using B4R?

Android will prefer to connect to a network with internet connection. So it can cause such issues.

Try this: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/mqtt-chat-network-error.90892/#post-574610

 

[hung]

Thank you Erel. The link helps.

I am good at Arduino C. Will try B4R later