android ip to int,Java: convert int to InetAddress

Not enough reputation to comment on skaffman's answer so I'll add this as a separate answer.

The solution skaffman proposes is correct with one exception. BigInteger.toByteArray() returns a byte array which could have a leading sign bit.

byte[] bytes = bigInteger.toByteArray();

byte[] inetAddressBytes;

// Should be 4 (IPv4) or 16 (IPv6) bytes long

if (bytes.length == 5 || bytes.length == 17) {

// Remove byte with most significant bit.

inetAddressBytes = ArrayUtils.remove(bytes, 0);

} else {

inetAddressBytes = bytes;

}

InetAddress address = InetAddress.getByAddress(inetAddressBytes);

PS above code uses ArrayUtils from Apache Commons Lang.