Building an App to Send and Receive Messages Over a Local Network

Written by altynberg | Published 2021/05/08
Tech Story Tags: flutter-app-development | flutter-tutorial | flutter | http | wifi | messaging-system | messaging-app | programming

TLDR The task is to build an app that can send and receive messages over a local network. We can do it using sockets, but today we are going to create a simple app that uses an HTTP server for communication. The app has a simple HTTP server to send a message: Get my local IP address to send messages and to create an HttpServer instance. To check if it works you can go to the link:http://{your local IP: http://://{local IP:8080?msg=message&ip=ip.via the TL;DR App
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Written by altynberg | Software Engineer
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/05/08
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