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

You need to do something like this

WifiManager wifi = (WifiManager)getSystemService( Context.WIFI_SERVICE );
if(wifi != null)
{
    MulticastLock mcLock = wifi.createMulticastLock("mylock");
    mcLock.acquire();
}

Reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/WifiManager.MulticastLock.html