have a look at the connectivity package
Connectivity Package

If the package does not fulfill you requirement, then maybe behind the scene you can try to connect to any website/API using http and check the status

For anybody looking for a similar solution here is what I think that I am going to use.

The Dio library has a http timeout option which seems to work quite well, I was trying to use the Future timeout but that doesn’t take into consideration if an http connection was able to get setup.

Here an example from the Dio documentation

Dio dio = new Dio(); // with default Options

// Set default configs
dio.options.connectTimeout = 5000; //5s
dio.options.receiveTimeout = 3000;

// or new Dio with a BaseOptions instance.
BaseOptions options = new BaseOptions(
    connectTimeout: 5000,
    receiveTimeout: 3000,
);
Dio dio = new Dio(options);

Thanks for the help. Hope I get it to work the way I want to.

I have been looking for a way to detect if my Flutter App has access to the internet. I want to use this to let the app make a choice of either sending some data to an API, if there is internet, or saving it to a local database, if there is no internet.

I have tried some of the plugins but all of them seem to detect the network state rather then checking if there is an internet connection.

I have tried just simply sending a ping and checking it that way but when I do that it seems to take a really long time to stop and return the ping failure.

I am also using the DIO library to access the API so I also have tried detecting it through that library but it also takes quite some time to stop and return (around 30 seconds). In this case I think I just hit a timeout but that also isn’t really what I am looking for.

Any ideas or better methods of detecting if there is an active internet connection in a rather quick way and not the network state?