Packet loss while receiving UDP broadcast in android device

Question

For receiving UDP broadcast packets from the server to an android device, i used a service class and listen for packets in a thread. It receives the packet successfully. The

Answer 1

With reference to above explanation by me following changes you can make to make code behave according to requirement

I suppose you can make following changes to make your problem code work instead of creating socket into listenAndWaitAndThrowIntent(InetAddress broadcastIP, Integer port ) method create it in startListenForUdpBroadcast() as follows

socket = new DatagramSocket(port, broadcastIP);
socket.setBroadcast(true);
while (shouldRestartSocketListen) {
     listenAndWaitAndThrowIntent(broadcastIP, port, socket);
}

Now you also need to change implementation of listenAndWaitAndThrowIntent method as follows

private void listenAndWaitAndThrowIntent(InetAddress broadcastIP, 
Integer port, DatagramSocket socket) throws Exception {
    byte[] recvBuf = new byte[64000];
    //socket.setSoTimeout(1000);
    //change value of condition in for loop to desired number of packets you would like to receive in below example it is 2 so it captures two packets
    for (int i=0 ; i <= 2 ; i++ ){
    DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(recvBuf, recvBuf.length);

    socket.receive(packet);
    messQueue.add(packet);
    }

}

Try this it should work !! it might help