GeoIp2AndCountry

This project demonstrate how to roughly query the country by IP Address with GeoIP2 on Android

Detail

• First, we get the local client origin IP by request some server such as: http://httpbin.org/ip

• with the IP, we locally query the GeOIP database to get some country name and code

• the dat file: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz

• and the algorithm java code: http://maxmind.github.io/GeoIP2-java/

• Gradle

dependencies {
    compile 'com.maxmind.geoip2:geoip2:2.8.0'
}

for more information

• GeoIp2: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/web-services/
• retrofit: https://github.com/square/retrofit
• RxJava: https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava
• RxAndroid: https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxAndroid
• gradle-retrolambda: https://github.com/evant/gradle-retrolambda

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