How to receive Multicast packets on Android

Question

I\'m trying to receive data from a multicast address, but the call to MulticastSocket.receive() blocks until a timeout takes place. I did some network sniffing and found ou

Answer 1

I read all 2.1 devices not supporting IGMP stack.

IGMP was missing on different HTC, Samsung, and Motorola devices of all android version from 2.1 up to 3.2.

Link in which i read http://www.programmingmobile.com/2012/01/multicast-and-android-big-headache.html