How to Ping External IP from Java Android

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I am developing a Ping application for Android 2.2.

I try my code and it works, but only in local IPs, that's my problem I want to do ping to external servers too.

Here is my code:

  private OnClickListener milistener = new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        TextView info = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.info);
        EditText edit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit);
        Editable host = edit.getText();
        InetAddress in;
        in = null;
        // Definimos la ip de la cual haremos el ping
        try {
            in = InetAddress.getByName(host.toString());
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        // Definimos un tiempo en el cual ha de responder
        try {
            if (in.isReachable(5000)) {
                info.setText("Responde OK");
            } else {
                info.setText("No responde: Time out");
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            info.setText(e.toString());
        }
    }
};

Ping 127.0.0.1 -> OK
Ping 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) -> Time Out

I put the following line at Manifest XML too:

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

Can anyone suggest me where I'm doing wrong?

android java
12 Answers

I implemented "ping" in pure Android Java and hosted it on gitlab. It does the same thing as the ping executable, but is much easier to configure. It's has a couple useful features like being able to bind to a given Network.

https://github.com/dburckh/AndroidPing

user_19029100

To get the boolean value for the hit on the ip 

public Boolean getInetAddressByName(String name)
    {
        AsyncTask<String, Void, Boolean> task = new AsyncTask<String, Void, Boolean>()
        {

            @Override
            protected Boolean doInBackground(String... params) {
                try
                {
                    return InetAddress.getByName(params[0]).isReachable(2000);
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    return null;
                }
            }
        };
        try {
            return task.execute(name).get();
        }
        catch (InterruptedException e) {
            return null;
        }
        catch (ExecutionException e) {
            return null;
        }

    }
user_126009430

Here is simple code to get latency in kotlin: less if, using ip:String as input, using regex to split format, using avg for latency in ms

    var avg = LATENCY_ERROR
    val process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/system/bin/ping -c 1 $ip")
    BufferedReader(InputStreamReader(process.inputStream)).forEachLine {
        // it: "PING 194.194.194.194 (194.194.194.194) 56(84) bytes of data."
        // it: "rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 326.137/326.137/326.137/0.000 ms"
        if (it.contains("rtt ")) {
            avg = Regex("\\d+\\.\\d+").findAll(it).toList()[1].value.toFloat().roundToInt()
        }
    }
user_191353790

Pink ip Address

  public static int pingHost(String host, int timeout) throws IOException,
        InterruptedException {
    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
    timeout /= 1000;
    String cmd = "ping -c 1 -W " + timeout + " " + host;
    Process proc = runtime.exec(cmd);
    Log.d(TAG, cmd);
    proc.waitFor();
    int exit = proc.exitValue();
    return exit;
}
   Ping a host and return an int value of 0 or 1 or 2 0=success, 1=fail,
   * 2=error
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