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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, 3G Internet & WiFi Speed Test (4.2@432,531) Ǥ 12 2 Wikipedia
• G-MoN (4@4,942) Ǥ 13 5 LastUpdate: 2020-03-28
• WiGLE WiFi Wardriving (3.9@4,360) Ǥ 19 Github; Intro & Howto 8/2017; Tutorial 6/2020; Wikipedia EN
• Mozilla Stumbler (3.8@1,527) 10 LastUpdate: 2019-04-06 Github; Howto 6/2015; Intro 8/2016; Data gathering for Mozilla Location Service
• WiFi Tracker (3.7@1,453) Ǥ 12 5 LastUpdate: 2018-01-15
• Wifi Collector (3.7@493) 5 LastUpdate: 2019-04-13
• WiFi Track (3.5@111) Ǥ 10 1 LastUpdate: 2013-06-25
• 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
• FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.8@61,032) 10 LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (4@14,173; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2 LastUpdate: 2018-08-31
• NetShare - no-root-tethering (3.6@27,535) Ǥ 10 Video Howto 11/2017 (Text); Anleitung 2/2019; can act as WiFi repeater

Bluetooth Tethering

• PdaNet+ (4.2@83,041) 13 Review 7/2018; Howto 11/2019
• FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.8@61,032) 10 LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (4@14,173; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2 LastUpdate: 2018-08-31
• Easy Tether Lite (No root) (3.3@23,198) 6 LastUpdate: 2018-12-06 / EasyTether Full (4@9,206; ~EUR 9.50) 5 LastUpdate: 2018-12-09 / EasyTether Pro (4.7@2,267; ~EUR 10.75) 5 LastUpdate: 2018-12-26

USB Tethering

• FoxFi (WiFi Tether w/o Root) (3.8@61,032) 10 LastUpdate: 2017-12-18 / FoxFi Key (supports PdaNet) (4@14,173; ~EUR 8.50) Ǥ 2 LastUpdate: 2018-08-31
• Easy Tether Lite (No root) (3.3@23,198) 6 LastUpdate: 2018-12-06 / EasyTether Full (4@9,206; ~EUR 9.50) 5 LastUpdate: 2018-12-09 / EasyTether Pro (4.7@2,267; ~EUR 10.75) 5 LastUpdate: 2018-12-26
• USB Tethering (3.1@6,172) Ǥ 4 3 LastUpdate: 2019-10-24
• Quick USB Tethering Wifi (2.9@1,088) 4 2 LastUpdate: 2020-11-04
• Free USB Tethering (2.8@647) Ǥ 6 2 LastUpdate: 2018-09-17
• SimpleRT (0@0) 2 Github

USB Reverse Tethering

• Reverse Tethering NoRoot Free (4.3@1,004) Ǥ 10 1 LastUpdate: 2019-05-25
• Reverse Tether [Trial] (2.4@698) 7 LastUpdate: 2014-12-29

WiFi Tether Toggler (Android 2.2+)

• Locale Wifi Hotspot Plug-in (2.1@766) 3 LastUpdate: 2018-12-06