Connection Settings API provides access to Destinations and Connection Methods. Destinations and Connection Methods are the basic components of the Bearer Mobility concept.
Bearer Mobility enables automatic selection of the most appropriate access technology (bearer type) in a certain situation or environment, and roaming between access technologies, thus providing the always-on experience from the end-user point-of-view.
Bearer Mobility becomes concrete on the UI level via so-called “destination network” thinking. Instead of explicit Internet Access Point (IAP) association, the application can ask for a connection to a certain destination, e.g. “Internet” or “Intranet”. Each destination can contain numerous access technologies (hence “connection methods”) that can be used to reach the destination or service domain in question. When a connection to a destination is being established, the device can automatically select the best available connection method, and roam between the connection methods defined inside that particular destination.
This API is valid from S60 release 3.2 onwards.
Connection Settings API is an SDK API and is first published in S60 release 3.2.