I want exact IP address of android device when it will connected to a network through wifi!
can any one help me how to get the ip address while the mobile is connected to a network and how to get the address through pro-grammatically ..
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krishnan muthiah pillai
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You can use this method to get IP address of the device pass true for IPv4 and false for IPv6
public static String getIPAddress(boolean useIPv4) {
try {
List<NetworkInterface> interfaces = Collections.list(NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces());
for (NetworkInterface intf : interfaces) {
List<InetAddress> addrs = Collections.list(intf.getInetAddresses());
for (InetAddress addr : addrs) {
if (!addr.isLoopbackAddress()) {
String sAddr = addr.getHostAddress();
//boolean isIPv4 = InetAddressUtils.isIPv4Address(sAddr);
boolean isIPv4 = sAddr.indexOf(':')<0;
if (useIPv4) {
if (isIPv4)
return sAddr;
} else {
if (!isIPv4) {
int delim = sAddr.indexOf('%'); // drop ip6 zone suffix
return delim<0 ? sAddr.toUpperCase() : sAddr.substring(0, delim).toUpperCase();
}
}
}
}
}
} catch (Exception ex) { } // for now eat exceptions
return "";
}
Thanks to this ans How to get IP address of the device?

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2But it returns the first address it finds, for ipv4 it's fine since there is only one, but for ipv6 based addresses there are more than one, so how do i make sure that the first address it returns is the correct ipv6 address – Sumit Kumar Saha Sep 17 '17 at 09:16
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I used this and it workd !
WifiManager wm = (WifiManager) getSystemService(WIFI_SERVICE);
String ip = Formatter.formatIpAddress(wm.getConnectionInfo().getIpAddress());
Below permissions in the manifest file.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>

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Here is the method I use @natsumiyu: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54417079/2068732 – matdev Jul 04 '19 at 08:05
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