Swift - Get device's WIFI IP Address

Question

I need to get IP Address of iOS device in Swift. This is not a duplicate of other questions about this! I need to get only WiFi IP address, if there is no wifi ip address - I need to handle it. There are a few questions about it on Stack Overflow, but there are only functions that return ip addresses. For example (from How to get Ip address in swift):

func getIFAddresses() -> [String] {
    var addresses = [String]()

    // Get list of all interfaces on the local machine:
    var ifaddr : UnsafeMutablePointer<ifaddrs> = nil
    if getifaddrs(&ifaddr) == 0 {

        // For each interface ...
        for (var ptr = ifaddr; ptr != nil; ptr = ptr.memory.ifa_next) {
            let flags = Int32(ptr.memory.ifa_flags)
            var addr = ptr.memory.ifa_addr.memory

            // Check for running IPv4, IPv6 interfaces. Skip the loopback interface.
            if (flags & (IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING|IFF_LOOPBACK)) == (IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING) {
                if addr.sa_family == UInt8(AF_INET) || addr.sa_family == UInt8(AF_INET6) {

                    // Convert interface address to a human readable string:
                    var hostname = [CChar](count: Int(NI_MAXHOST), repeatedValue: 0)
                    if (getnameinfo(&addr, socklen_t(addr.sa_len), &hostname, socklen_t(hostname.count),
                        nil, socklen_t(0), NI_NUMERICHOST) == 0) {
                            if let address = String.fromCString(hostname) {
                                addresses.append(address)
                            }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        freeifaddrs(ifaddr)
    }

    return addresses
}

Here I get 2 values - address from mobile internet(I think) and WiFi address I need. Is there any other way to get ONLY WiFi IP Address?

Answer 1

Swift 4 - Get device's IP Address:

Add #include<ifaddrs.h> in your bridging header.

This is the framework needed to get IP address.

class func getIPAddress() -> String? {
        var address: String?
        var ifaddr: UnsafeMutablePointer<ifaddrs>? = nil
        if getifaddrs(&ifaddr) == 0 {
            var ptr = ifaddr
            while ptr != nil {
                defer { ptr = ptr?.pointee.ifa_next }

                let interface = ptr?.pointee
                let addrFamily = interface?.ifa_addr.pointee.sa_family
                if addrFamily == UInt8(AF_INET) || addrFamily == UInt8(AF_INET6) {

                    if let name: String = String(cString: (interface?.ifa_name)!), name == "en0" {
                        var hostname = [CChar](repeating: 0, count: Int(NI_MAXHOST))
                        getnameinfo(interface?.ifa_addr, socklen_t((interface?.ifa_addr.pointee.sa_len)!), &hostname, socklen_t(hostname.count), nil, socklen_t(0), NI_NUMERICHOST)
                        address = String(cString: hostname)
                    }
                }
            }
            freeifaddrs(ifaddr)
        }
        return address
}

Answer 2

func getIPAddress() -> String {
    var address: String = "error"

    var interfaces: ifaddrs? = nil

    var temp_addr: ifaddrs? = nil
    var success: Int = 0
    // retrieve the current interfaces - returns 0 on success
    success = getifaddrs(interfaces)
    if success == 0 {
        // Loop through linked list of interfaces
        temp_addr = interfaces
        while temp_addr != nil {
            if temp_addr?.ifa_addr?.sa_family == AF_INET {
                // Check if interface is en0 which is the wifi connection on the iPhone
                if (String(utf8String: temp_addr?.ifa_name) == "en0") {
                    // Get NSString from C String
                    address = String(utf8String: inet_ntoa((temp_addr?.ifa_addr as? sockaddr_in)?.sin_addr))
                }
            }
            temp_addr = temp_addr?.ifa_next
        }
    }
        // Free memory
    freeifaddrs(interfaces)
    return address
}