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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@446,369) Ǥ 12 4 Wikipedia
• Wifi Collector (3.9@507) 5 LastUpdate: 2019-04-13
• WiGLE WiFi Wardriving (3.8@4,808) Ǥ 24 Github; Intro & Howto 8/2017; Tutorial 6/2020; Wikipedia EN
• Mozilla Stumbler (3.8@1,527) 10 1 LastUpdate: 2019-04-06 Github; Intro 8/2016; Data gathering for Mozilla Location Service
• G-MoN (3.7@4,949) Ǥ 13 5 LastUpdate: 2020-03-28
• WiFi Tracker (3.7@1,505) Ǥ 12 5 LastUpdate: 2018-01-15

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 …

• NetShare - no-root-tethering (4.2@41,170) Ǥ 13 1 Video Howto 11/2017 (Text); Anleitung 2/2019; can act as WiFi repeater
• TetherFi (4.2@1,358) Ǥ 13 1 Github; no root required
• TetherSetting | free tethering (3.4@760) 4 4 LastUpdate: 2020-05-20 no root required
• FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.3@15) 10 LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (3.8@14,224; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2

Bluetooth Tethering

• PdaNet+ (4.3@84,233) 15 Review 7/2018; Howto 11/2019
• FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.3@15) 10 LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (3.8@14,224; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2
• Easy Tether Lite (No root) (2.4@22,872) 6 LastUpdate: 2018-12-06 / EasyTether Full (4@9,091) 5 / EasyTether Pro (4@2,277; ~EUR 10.75) 5

USB Tethering

• Quick USB Tethering Wifi (4@1,563) Ǥ 7 2
• FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.3@15) 10 LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (3.8@14,224; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2
• USB Tethering (3.2@6,854) 4 2 LastUpdate: 2023-05-09
• Free USB Tethering (3.1@656) Ǥ 6 2 LastUpdate: 2018-09-17
• Easy Tether Lite (No root) (2.4@22,872) 6 LastUpdate: 2018-12-06 / EasyTether Full (4@9,091) 5 / EasyTether Pro (4@2,277; ~EUR 10.75) 5
• SimpleRT (0@0) 2 LastUpdate: 2021-12-02 Github

USB Reverse Tethering

• Reverse Tethering NoRoot (4.3@1,018) Ǥ 10 1 LastUpdate: 2019-05-25
• Reverse Tether [Trial] (2.4@694) 7 LastUpdate: 2014-12-29

WiFi Tether Toggler (Android 2.2+)

• Locale Wifi Hotspot Plug-in (2@754) 3 LastUpdate: 2018-12-06