Broadcasting over Wi-Fi Direct

Question

I\'m looking at the possibility to broadcast over a Wi-Fi Direct connection between multiple Android devices. I\'ve created a simple message broadcasting application to test whe

Answer 1

Shamelessly stolen from https://code.google.com/p/boxeeremote/wiki/AndroidUDP

Try getting you network connection this way:

InetAddress getBroadcastAddress() throws IOException {
    WifiManager wifi = mContext.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
    DhcpInfo dhcp = wifi.getDhcpInfo();
    // handle null somehow

    int broadcast = (dhcp.ipAddress & dhcp.netmask) | ~dhcp.netmask;
    byte[] quads = new byte[4];
    for (int k = 0; k < 4; k++)
      quads[k] = (byte) ((broadcast >> k * 8) & 0xFF);
    return InetAddress.getByAddress(quads);
}  

Then try sending a packet this way:

DatagramSocket socket = new DatagramSocket(PORT);
socket.setBroadcast(true);
DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(data.getBytes(), data.length(),
    getBroadcastAddress(), PORT);
socket.send(packet);

// If you want to listen for a response ...
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);
socket.receive(packet);

Edit: From same page to read try this ...

WifiManager wifi = (WifiManager) this.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
MulticastLock lock = wifi.createMulticastLock("dk.aboaya.pingpong");
lock.acquire();
serverSocket = new DatagramSocket(19876);
serverSocket.setSoTimeout(15000); //15 sec wait for the client to connect
byte[] data = new byte[UDPBatPositionUpdater.secretWord.length()]; 
DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(data, data.length);
serverSocket.receive(packet);
lock.release();
String s = new String(packet.getData());
System.out.println(s);

Remember, that you need the following permission for it to work: