Android 2.2 and “Bad address family” on Socket Connect

Question

I have a fairly simple game that works perfectly on every version now up through 2.1, but with the new 2.2 (Froyo) release I am unable to create a socket. I am using the mi

Answer 1

this was a bug and has been fixed: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9431

you should be very careful with the java.net.preferIPv6Addresses workaround, because there are devices and networks where you do want IPv6.

(and, as the original poster found, if you can use io rather than nio, you generally should.)