How to get device IP in Dart/Flutter - dart

Question

I am currently writing an app where the user needs to know the IP address of their phone/tablet. Where would I find this information?
I only want to know what the local IP address is, such as, 192.168.x.xxx and NOT the public IP address of the router.
So far, I can only seem to find InternetAddress.anyIPv4 and InternetAddress.loopbackIPv4. The loopback address is not what I want as it is 127.0.0.1.

Answer 1

I guess you mean the local IP of the currently connected Wifi network, right?
EDITED
In this answer, I used to suggest using the NetworkInterface in 'dart:io', however NetworkInterface.list is not supported in all Android devices (as pointed out by Mahesh). The wifi package provides that, but later this was incorporated to the flutter's connectivity plugin. In Oct/2020 the methods for that were moved from the connectivity to the wifi_info_flutter plugin, and in 2021 that package was discontinued in favor of network_info_plus.
So just go for network_info_plus and call await NetworkInfo().getWifiIP().
By the way, you may also want to check if Wifi is available using the connectivity_plus plugin in flutter/plugins. Here's an example of how to check if wifi is available.

Answer 2

This provides the IP addresses of all interfaces
import 'dart:io';
...
Future printIps() async {
for (var interface in await NetworkInterface.list()) {
print('== Interface: ${interface.name} ==');
for (var addr in interface.addresses) {
print(
'${addr.address} ${addr.host} ${addr.isLoopback} ${addr.rawAddress} ${addr.type.name}');
}
}
}
See also
https://api.dartlang.org/stable/2.0.0/dart-io/NetworkInterface-class.html

Answer 3

I was searching for getting IP address in flutter for both the iOS and android platforms.
As answered by Feu and Günter Zöchbauer following works on only iOS platform
NetworkInterface.list(....);
this listing of network interfaces is not supported for android platform.
After too long search and struggling with possible solutions, for getting IP also on android device, I came across a flutter package called wifi, with this package we can get device IP address on both iOS and android platforms.
Simple sample function to get device IP address
Future<InternetAddress> get selfIP async {
String ip = await Wifi.ip;
return InternetAddress(ip);
}
I have tested this on android using wifi and also from mobile network.
And also tested on iOS device.
Though from name it looks only for wifi network, but it has also given me correct IP address on mobile data network [tested on 4G network].
#finally_this_works : I have almost given up searching for getting IP address on android and was thinking of implementing platform channel to fetch IP natively from java code for android platform [as interface list was working for iOS]. This wifi package saved the day and lots of headache.

Answer 4

It seems that Dart doesn't have a solution to get your own ip address. Searching for a solution I came across the rest api https://ipify.org to get my public address. Hope it helps.

Answer 5

Here is another way.
Future<InternetAddress> _retrieveIPAddress() async {
InternetAddress result;
int code = Random().nextInt(255);
var dgSocket = await RawDatagramSocket.bind(InternetAddress.anyIPv4, 0);
dgSocket.readEventsEnabled = true;
dgSocket.broadcastEnabled = true;
Future<InternetAddress> ret =
dgSocket.timeout(Duration(milliseconds: 100), onTimeout: (sink) {
sink.close();
}).expand<InternetAddress>((event) {
if (event == RawSocketEvent.read) {
Datagram dg = dgSocket.receive();
if (dg != null && dg.data.length == 1 && dg.data[0] == code) {
dgSocket.close();
return [dg.address];
}
}
return [];
}).firstWhere((InternetAddress a) => a != null);
dgSocket.send([code], InternetAddress("255.255.255.255"), dgSocket.port);
return ret;
}

Answer 6

here, you can use this package https://pub.dev/packages/dart_ipify available on pub.dev,
import 'package:dart_ipify/dart_ipify.dart';
void main() async {
final ipv4 = await Ipify.ipv4();
print(ipv4); // 98.207.254.136
final ipv6 = await Ipify.ipv64();
print(ipv6); // 98.207.254.136 or 2a00:1450:400f:80d::200e
final ipv4json = await Ipify.ipv64(format: Format.JSON);
print(ipv4json); //{"ip":"98.207.254.136"} or {"ip":"2a00:1450:400f:80d::200e"}
// The response type can be text, json or jsonp
}

Answer 7

To get device connected network/WiFi IP you can use network_info_plus package.
For android add the following permissions ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION in the AndroidManifest.xml file
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
IOS permissions are a little more complicated so please read what is requested in the library.
Add package to pubspec.yaml
dependencies:
network_info_plus: ^1.0.2
Than you can get the current IP by executing
String? wifiIP = await NetworkInfo().getWifiIP();

Answer 8

In my recent app I have a requirement to get user's Ip address and then I found this packgage useful. https://pub.dev/packages/get_ip
Here is How I use it.
_onLoginButtonPressed() async {
String ipAddress = await GetIp.ipAddress;
print(ipAddress); //192.168.232.2
}

Answer 9

You can use the wifi package for getting the local IP Address (for eg. 192.168.x.x). (as The NetworkInterface.list (from dart:io) is no longer supporting Android from 7.0 and above).
Use the wifi package :
import 'package:wifi/wifi.dart';
You can retrieve the IP Address like this:
Future<String> getIp() async {
String ip = await Wifi.ip;
return ip;
}
You can display it on a Text widget using FutureBuilder:
FutureBuilder<String>(
future: getIp(),
builder: (BuildContext context, AsyncSnapshot<String> snapshot) {
if (snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.waiting) {
return Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
} else {
if (snapshot.hasError)
return Center(child: Text('Error: ${snapshot.error}'));
else
return Center(child: Text('IP Address is : ${snapshot.data}')); //IP Address
}
},
);

Answer 10

Have you tried the device_info package?
There is an example on querying device information in https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/device_info#-example-tab-

Answer 11

You can use the network_info_plus plugin to get various info about the wifi connection
Eg:
import 'package:network_info_plus/network_info_plus.dart';
final NetworkInfo _networkInfo = NetworkInfo();
wifiIPv4Addr = await _networkInfo.getWifiIP();
For further refernce you can refer to the examples given under the official page

Answer 12

You can use the following package: https://pub.dev/packages/network_info_plus
And here is the page giving more detail about how to use the package https://plus.fluttercommunity.dev/docs/network_info_plus/usage/#using-network-info-plus
Essentially...if you have the package installed, you would use something like
import 'package:network_info_plus/network_info_plus.dart';
final info = NetworkInfo();
var wifiIP = await info.getWifiIP();
This package comes with some additional methods that could prove quite useful ;)
NOTE: This package is not supported on flutter web.

Answer 13

The flutter network_info_plus package provides access to Wifi information such as Wifi IP and name, but the problem is that it doesn't work when the phone HotSpot is on and the phone gets its IP from its own HotSpot.
The code below works for any condition and returns local IP whether it comes from phone HotSpot or another router:
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
MethodChannel _channel = const MethodChannel('get_ip');
String ip = await _channel.invokeMethod('getIpAdress');
Node that in case you got No implementation found for method error, you should add get_ip package.
I hope it helps.

Answer 14

If we want to find the public facing IP address of a browser we can use dart_ipify The example in the documentation worked perfectly for me.
Import the package:
import 'package:dart_ipify/dart_ipify.dart';
Add this code to _incrementCounter():
final ipv4 = await Ipify.ipv4();
print(ipv4);