Scan Network For A Specific MAC Address - Android

Question

I\'m designing an Application to control multi zone audio amplifiers. To do so I have to create a socket connection, So far that works fine. What I would like to do is instead o

Answer 1

I made it for my app "Network Discovery" like this: Loop through the ip range then just ping the ip to get the mac address, which I grab by parsing /proc/net/arp. There probably is a better way, but it works for me.

Here is the range scanning: https://github.com/rorist/android-network-discovery/blob/master/src/info/lamatricexiste/network/DnsDiscovery.java start and end are ip addr as long.

And here is the /proc/net/arp parsing: https://github.com/rorist/android-network-discovery/blob/master/src/info/lamatricexiste/network/Network/HardwareAddress.java#L60