The purpose of WPS Connect is to parse available Wi-Fi connections, determine if they’re WPS-enabled and then determine if they’re vulnerable to the default pin. If a router, for instance, has the WPS Pin feature enabled and is still configured for the default pin, it becomes a trivial matter to access. One of which involves the WPS Pin feature. There are some security flaws with this approach. It’s a security standard designed to make it easier for the average user to set up a home or small business network. In a world where security is an ever-increasing concern, WPS is just another vector for would-be information thieves to exploit, and getting people out of the habit of relying on it in the first place is probably for the best.WPS Connect is an Android app that lets you discover and connect to WPS-enabled networks that have the PIN feature enabled and are set to the default pin. WPS was introduced over a decade ago, in a time before everyone was walking around with a smartphone and Wi-Fi was far from ubiquitous. Given the security issues associated with WPS and the fact that many newer routers are eschewing the feature entirely, removing OS-level support for it probably only makes sense. WPS suport has been deprecated from Client mode and this method will immediately trigger (int) with a generic error. You can see one of the strings suggesting the feature is gone for good below. Still, responses from a Googler on the thread indicate that the team is looking into this for further clarification, and we've also reached out to Google ourselves for comment. Users on the Google Issue Tracker have noted some strings in Android related to WPS that are now marked as deprecated (no longer supported), leading to speculation that Google doesn't plan to reintroduce the feature once P is officially released. WPS connections must be initiated manually on Android, but with Android P, it seems Google has removed the feature from the OS entirely.
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