Does anyone know how I could get the public ip address of an android

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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T23:54:50+00:00 2026-05-22T23:54:50+00:00

Does anyone know how I could get the public ip address of an android device?

I am trying to run a server socket (just experimenting with simple p2p).

This requires informing the local and remote users of each others public ip. I did find this thread How to get IP address of the device from code? which contains a link to an article (http://www.droidnova.com/get-the-ip-address-of-your-device,304.html) that shows how to get the IP. However this returns the local ip when connected through a router and I would like to get the actual public IP instead.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-22T23:54:51+00:00

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whatismyip.com is perfect for getting the IP, though the site requests you only hit it about once every 5 minutes.

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