Provided are a method and an apparatus for establishing a wireless connection for an application of a user equipment. In comparison with the prior art, the present application is applied to detect whether a first application has a communication requirement, and call a corresponding third-party connection module to execute a wireless connection operation when there is a communication requirement. The wireless connection operation comprises: sending a wireless access point information request to a corresponding network equipment; receiving one or more pieces of wireless access point information sent by the network equipment based on the wireless access information request; and establishing a wireless connection between the user equipment and the corresponding wireless access point according to at least one piece of information in the one or more pieces of wireless access point information so as to realize the communication requirement of the first application.