VPN Hotspot
Connecting things to your VPN made simple. Share your VPN connection over hotspot or repeater. (root required)
or XDA Labs
This app is useful for:
- Connecting things that don't support VPN like Chromecasts behind corporate firewalls;
- Setting up gapps behind corporate firewalls;
- Connecting to your mobile hotspot but you're not bothered to set up VPN on your device;
- Bypassing tethering limits. (you might need more of a real VPN than an ad-blocker to fool a smarter cellular provider)
P.S. You can also do the similar on Windows and Mac. I don't know about you but I can't get my stupid Windows 10 to work with hosted network now that they introduced this Mobile hotspot.
This app is designed to do only minimal changes to your system, so there's almost no chance you will brick your device and/or break your Internet using this app under normal conditions. However there's also absolutely no guarantee it won't.
Q & A
Edit network name and/or password for repeater?
These are generated by Android system and can't be specified manually for now. You can however request a credential reset using the button in this app.
SSID is hardcoded to DIRECT-<random 2 char>-<your device name> so the only thing you can customize is the last part in
system Wi-Fi direct settings. Password is hardcoded to a random 8 char string. Changing anything else requires replacing
driver wpa_supplicant which we are not considering implementing.
Connect a 2.4GHz-only device to a 5GHz repeater?
You'll have to use WPS for now to make the repeater switch to 2.4GHz.
IPv6 tethering?
Missing android.permission.MANAGE_USB permission?
Toggling USB tethering only works if you install this app as a system app (/system/priv-app).
Alternatively, use the toggle in your system settings instead.
No root?
Without root, you can only:
- View connected devices for system tethering and monitor them if your SELinux status is not enforcing (otherwise you can still do manual refreshes);
- Play around with settings;
- Alternatively you can use try these apps (requires manual proxy configuration or client apps) for normal repeater tethering/bypassing tethering limits: (note: these apps are neither free nor open source)