Added in API level 29

InetAddresses


public class InetAddresses
extends Object

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.net.InetAddresses


Utility methods for InetAddress implementations.

Summary

Public methods

static boolean isNumericAddress(String address)

Checks to see if the address is a numeric address (such as "192.0.2.1" or "2001:db8::1:2").

static InetAddress parseNumericAddress(String address)

Returns an InetAddress corresponding to the given numeric address (such as "192.168.0.1" or "2001:4860:800d::68").

Inherited methods

Public methods

isNumericAddress

Added in API level 29
public static boolean isNumericAddress (String address)

Checks to see if the address is a numeric address (such as "192.0.2.1" or "2001:db8::1:2").

A numeric address is either an IPv4 address containing exactly 4 decimal numbers or an IPv6 numeric address. IPv4 addresses that consist of either hexadecimal or octal digits or do not have exactly 4 numbers are not treated as numeric.

This method will never do a DNS lookup.

Parameters
address String: the address to parse. This value cannot be null.

Returns
boolean true if the supplied address is numeric, false otherwise.

parseNumericAddress

Added in API level 29
public static InetAddress parseNumericAddress (String address)

Returns an InetAddress corresponding to the given numeric address (such as "192.168.0.1" or "2001:4860:800d::68").

See isNumericAddress(java.lang.String) (String)} for a definition as to what constitutes a numeric address.

This method will never do a DNS lookup.

Parameters
address String: the address to parse, must be numeric. This value cannot be null.

Returns
InetAddress an InetAddress instance corresponding to the address. This value cannot be null.

Throws
IllegalArgumentException if address is not a numeric address.