Android Broadcast Address

Issue

I am making a Client Server application for my Android phone.

I have created a UDP Server in Python which sits and listens for connections.

I can put either the server IP address in directly like 192.169.0.100 and it sends data fine. I can also put in 192.168.0.255 and it find the server on 192.169.0.100.

Is it possible to get the broadcast address of the network my Android phone is connected to? I am only ever going to use this application on my Wifi network or other Wifi networks.

Cheers

Solution

As the broadcast IP address is the current IP address but finishing with 255, you can do something like this:

public String getLocalIpAddress() {
    try {
        for (Enumeration<NetworkInterface> en = NetworkInterface
                .getNetworkInterfaces(); en.hasMoreElements();) {
            NetworkInterface intf = en.nextElement();
            for (Enumeration<InetAddress> enumIpAddr = intf.getInetAddresses(); enumIpAddr.hasMoreElements();) {
                InetAddress inetAddress = enumIpAddr.nextElement();
                if (!inetAddress.isLoopbackAddress()) {
                    return inetAddress.getHostAddress().toString();
                }
            }
        }
    } catch (SocketException ex) {}
    return null;
}

public static String getBroadcast() throws SocketException {
    System.setProperty("java.net.preferIPv4Stack", "true");
    for (Enumeration<NetworkInterface> niEnum = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(); niEnum.hasMoreElements();) {
        NetworkInterface ni = niEnum.nextElement();
        if (!ni.isLoopback()) {
            for (InterfaceAddress interfaceAddress : ni.getInterfaceAddresses()) {
                return interfaceAddress.getBroadcast().toString().substring(1);
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Answered By - Cristian