How to measure mobile data traffic on Android

Question

I'm developing an application that measure the data traffic recived through mobile data interface (no wifi) from all processes. Additionally this counter have to be related to a date range, i.e. betheen March 1 and April 1.

I had read about TrafficStats class, but in the documentation doesn't mentioned any about from when are the stats.

This is my first question and I really appreciate your help.

Thanks

Answer 1

I had read about TrafficStats class, but in the documentation doesn't mentioned any about from when are the stats.

"From when" should not matter to you. Take a reading at a point in time, take another reading at a later point in time, and the difference between the two is the bandwidth consumed between those two points in time.

Additionally this counter have to be related to a date range, i.e. betheen March 1 and April 1.

You would need to handle this yourself, most likely, checking for the amount of bandwidth consumption every so often (e.g., every 4 hours via AlarmManager), storing the results in a database, and then using that information to determine the bandwidth consumed over extended periods of time.