title: Android - comparing two InetAddress which are equal fails?
body: <p>I have an app that I am now developing multiplayer for. However I do not have 2 phones so I have been running a separate program on my pc (note: not the emulator!) which simulates my program and the multi-player aspects.</p>
  
  <p>However on the PC I have the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Packet input = inputQueue.take();
  
                  if (clientAddress == input.getAddress())
                  {
                      switch (input.type)
                      {
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This works fine, Packet is simply a simple class I wrote to take info out of a Datagram packet and getAddress() returns an InetAddress. Client address is set previously in the code.</p>
  
  <p>However the android app has exactly the same code, literally line for line exactly the same and this InetAddress will not equate to the other? If I take the String of the 2 InetAddress's using getHostName() or something and compare them then it DOES equal the other. </p>
  
  <p>Am I doing something wrong and assuming something by thinking I can compare the two objects with an == sign? Should it be .equals() ? I thought android used the same java.net code but could there be a difference?</p>
  
  <p>What IS the best way to ensure I have the same address using InetAddress's?</p>