{"id":294,"date":"2021-04-23T04:36:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2021-04-23T05:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T05:57:56","slug":"configure-openvpn-client-devices-for-andriod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/configure-openvpn-client-devices-for-andriod\/","title":{"rendered":"Configure OpenVPN Client Devices for Andriod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These instructions cover installing and configuring the OpenVPN Connect app\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Client-Side Configurations: Android<\/p>\n<p>There are two main options for an Android OpenVPN client. The first is OpenVPN Connect on Google Play, the official client from OpenVPN Technologies, Inc., the parent company behind OpenVPN.<\/p>\n<p>The second option is OpenVPN for Android on both Google Play and F-droid. The two clients are similar but OpenVPN for Android is open source, more feature-rich, and usually updated more often so we\u2019ll use it for this guide.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure that your Android device is fully updated, then install OpenVPN for Android from whichever source you prefer:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-11.26.47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-11.26.47.png 678w, https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-11.26.47-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the app is installed, get the VPN client credentials i.e .ovpn file. Most probably it will be downloaded to the &#8216;Downloads&#8217; folder on your device.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the OpenVPN for Android app, press the import button in the top right corner, find your recently downloaded file and select to import.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-10.51.38-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-10.51.38-2.png 512w, https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-10.51.38-2-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press the check button to finish importing the config file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-10.55.21-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecting to the OpenVPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tap on the newly added profile to connect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press \u201cOK\u201d when you see the below prompt for \u201cConnection request\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-10.58.01-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new screen will appear detailing the connection attempt. When you see \u201cInitialization Sequence Completed\u201d and\u00a0<strong>a key icon appears in the top status bar<\/strong>, you are successfully connected. Press the back arrow to return to the main menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-23-at-11.08.41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These instructions cover installing and configuring the OpenVPN Connect app\u00a0 Client-Side Configurations: Android There are two main options for an Android OpenVPN client. The first is OpenVPN Connect on Google Play, the official client from OpenVPN Technologies, Inc., the parent company behind OpenVPN. The second option is OpenVPN for Android on both Google Play and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostingahead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}