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Written by: Stanko Milosev

Category: Android

Published: 15 January 2016

Last Updated: 15 April 2016

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According to wikipedia SSDP is a network protocol for advertisement and discovery of network services and presence information. In another words, SSDP is used to broadcast message in order to discover devices. Message which I am sending through SSDP looks like:

M-SEARCH * HTTP/1.1\r\n
HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900\r\n
MAN: "ssdp:discover"\r\n
MX: 3\r\n
ST: urn:milosev:com:Stanko:1\r\n

Detailed explanation of headers you can read in this document.

Code in Android which I am using for sending M-SEARCH request looks like this:

        StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
        StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);

        try {
            MulticastSocket s = new MulticastSocket(1900);
            s.joinGroup(InetAddress.getByName("239.255.255.250") );
            DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(DISCOVER_MESSAGE.getBytes(), DISCOVER_MESSAGE.length(), getBroadcastAddress(), 1900);
            s.setBroadcast(true);
            s.send(packet);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Where DISCOVER_MESSAGE is constant which looks like this:

    private final static String DISCOVER_MESSAGE = "M-SEARCH * HTTP/1.1\r\n"
            + "HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900\r\n" + "MAN: \"ssdp:discover\"\r\n"
            + "MX: 3\r\n" + "ST: urn:milosev:com:Stanko:1\r\n";

getBroadcastAdress is like:

    InetAddress getBroadcastAddress() throws IOException {

        Context mContext = getApplicationContext();
        WifiManager wifi = (WifiManager) 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);
    }

Permissions in \app\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml which we need:

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

Code to receive messages looks like this:

StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);

try {
	MulticastSocket s = new MulticastSocket(1900);
	s.joinGroup(InetAddress.getByName("239.255.255.250") );
	DatagramPacket packet = new DatagramPacket(DISCOVER_MESSAGE.getBytes(), DISCOVER_MESSAGE.length(), getBroadcastAddress(), 1900);
	s.setBroadcast(true);

	while(true) {
		byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
		DatagramPacket receivePacket = new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);

		s.receive(receivePacket);
		String msg = new String(receivePacket.getData(), 0, receivePacket.getLength());
	}
} catch (IOException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
}

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Just one update, in order to receive answer it seems that I have to use same object for receiving, in my case I just placed code for receiving immediately under the code for sending request...

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One more update, it seems that getBroadcastAddress is not needed, we can simply write InetAddress.getByName("239.255.255.250")

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Written by: Stanko Milosev

Category: Android

Published: 11 January 2016

Last Updated: 15 January 2016

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Simple "Hello World" dialog example in Android studio.

In my case I started new application, and left everything by default.

In content_main.xml (in my case it is located in \app\src\main\res\layout\content_main.xml) I added button:

<Button
	android:layout_width="wrap_content"
	android:layout_height="wrap_content"
	android:text="New Button"
	android:id="@+id/button"
	android:layout_below="@+id/textView"
	android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
	android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
	android:layout_marginTop="53dp"
	android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false"
	android:onClick="testMessage"
/>

Here notice "android:onClick="testMessage""

Then in MainActivity.java (in my case it is located in \app\src\main\java\com\example\smi\msearch\MainActivity.java) I created method like:

public void testMessage(View view) {
	AlertDialog builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this).create();
	builder.setTitle("Yo!");
	builder.setMessage("This is a test!");
	builder.show();
}

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Written by: Stanko Milosev

Category: Android

Published: 15 December 2015

Last Updated: 15 December 2015

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There is possibility in Android to set global exception handler. My code looks something like this:

public class BrowserActivity extends Activity {
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            if(!(Thread.getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler() instanceof CustomExceptionHandler)) {
                Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new CustomExceptionHandler(this));
            }
    }
}

Where CustomExceptionHandler can look like this:

public class CustomExceptionHandler implements Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler {
    @Override
    public void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) {
        //do something here
    }
}