How to use UDP Multicast on Android devices connected to WIFI and LTE using Xamarin.Android?

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            _udpAddr = IPAddress.Parse("228.5.6.9");
            var port = 3333;

            IPAddress localAddr = IPAddress.Any;
            // Create endpoints
            _remoteEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(_udpAddr, port);
            _localEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(localAddr, port);

            // Create and configure and bind UdpClient
            _udpclient = new UdpClient(_localEndPoint);

            // Join
            _udpclient.JoinMulticastGroup(_udpAddr, localAddr);

            // Start listening for incoming data
            _udpclient.BeginReceive(new AsyncCallback(ReceivedCallback), null);

This is my UDP Multicast join code.

This code works fine on Xamarin UWP App and WIFI Connect only Android devices.

But, when Android devices connected to WIFI and LTE, device can't receive & send anything.

So, I changed LocalEndPoint setting like this,

    ...
    ....
    //IPAddress localAddr = IPAddress.Any;
    IPAddress localAddr = IPAddress.Parse(GetLocalIPAddress());
    ....
    ..

    public static string GetLocalIPAddress()
    {
        var host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
        foreach (var ip in host.AddressList)
        {
            if (ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork
                && ip.ToString().Contains("192.168."))
            {
                return ip.ToString();
            }
        }
        throw new Exception("Local IP Address Not Found!");
    }

With this code, every Android device send works fine, but receive nothing.

The interesting thing is the both code works fine on UWP App.

UWP App can send & receive using any LocalEndpoint.

How Can Multicast join on Android devices connected to WIFI and LTE?

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1 Answers

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LTE doesn't support Multicast, only MMBS, which is a 3GPP variant of Multicast accessible by operators.