WarDriving & Tethering
WiFi WarDriving
No, it's not about "war games" (and also not about tanks – unless they are designed as WiFi APs). Wikipedia defines the term "Wardrive" as follows:
Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer, smartphone or personal digital assistant (PDA).
Wardriving originated from wardialing, a method popularized by a character played by Matthew Broderick in the film WarGames, and named after that film. War dialing consists of dialing every phone number in a specific sequence in search of modems.
There are also indications for a backronym being involved: Wireless Access Revolution, to take away the martial touch from the term. In short: goal of the game is to collect APNs of a given area on a map.
So the goal is to show found networks on a map, or provide this data to projects like OpenCellId or Mozilla Location Service. Comparable apps for cell towers can be found in Monitoring & Mapping.
- OpenWLANMini (4.7@20) 8
LastUpdate: 2016-01-04 / OpenWLANMap (4.2@74) 11
LastUpdate: 2020-05-09 Wikipedia DE; Intro 5/2018
- Opensignal - 5G, 4G Speed Test (4.2@438,625) Ǥ 12
2
Wikipedia
- G-MoN (4@4,984) Ǥ 13
5
LastUpdate: 2020-03-28
- WiGLE WiFi Wardriving (3.9@4,534) Ǥ 19
Github; Intro & Howto 8/2017; Tutorial 6/2020; Wikipedia EN
- Mozilla Stumbler (3.8@1,527) 10
LastUpdate: 2019-04-06 Github; Intro 8/2016; Data gathering for Mozilla Location Service
- WiFi Tracker (3.7@1,495) Ǥ 12
5
LastUpdate: 2018-01-15
- Wifi Collector (3.7@499) 5
LastUpdate: 2019-04-13
- RadioBeacon (0@0) 11
LastUpdate: 2016-09-15 Github; Wiki; Map wireless networks and cell towers for the radiocells.org database (formerly OpenBmap)
Tethering
WiFi Tethering
Starting with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), this comes as a stock-feature, and no longer requires additional apps. Unless your manufacturer removed the feature …
- TetherSetting | free tethering (5@755) 4
4
LastUpdate: 2020-05-20 no root required
- NetShare - no-root-tethering (3.8@31,655) Ǥ 13
1
Video Howto 11/2017 (Text); Anleitung 2/2019; can act as WiFi repeater
- FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.7@61,168) 10
LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (4.2@14,251; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2
LastUpdate: 2018-08-31
Bluetooth Tethering
- PdaNet+ (4.1@83,978) 15
LastUpdate: 2020-12-22 Review 7/2018; Howto 11/2019
- FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.7@61,168) 10
LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (4.2@14,251; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2
LastUpdate: 2018-08-31
- Easy Tether Lite (No root) (3.2@23,179) 6
LastUpdate: 2018-12-06 / EasyTether Full (3.9@9,203; ~EUR 9.25) 5
LastUpdate: 2018-12-09 / EasyTether Pro (4@2,274; ~EUR 10.75) 5
LastUpdate: 2018-12-26
USB Tethering
- FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.7@61,168) 10
LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (4.2@14,251; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2
LastUpdate: 2018-08-31
- Easy Tether Lite (No root) (3.2@23,179) 6
LastUpdate: 2018-12-06 / EasyTether Full (3.9@9,203; ~EUR 9.25) 5
LastUpdate: 2018-12-09 / EasyTether Pro (4@2,274; ~EUR 10.75) 5
LastUpdate: 2018-12-26
- USB Tethering (3.1@6,462) Ǥ 4
3
- Quick USB Tethering Wifi (2.9@1,150) 5
2
- Free USB Tethering (2.8@654) Ǥ 6
2
LastUpdate: 2018-09-17
- SimpleRT (0@0) 2
Github
USB Reverse Tethering
- Reverse Tethering NoRoot Free (4.2@1,017) Ǥ 10
1
LastUpdate: 2019-05-25
- Reverse Tether [Trial] (2.3@695) 7
LastUpdate: 2014-12-29
WiFi Tether Toggler (Android 2.2+)
Further Readings:
- 11 Best Tethering Apps for Android (8/2021)