MiniDNS is a minimal dns client library for android. It can parse a basic set of resource records (A, AAAA, NS, SRV) and is easy to use and extend.

This library is not intended to be used as a DNS server. You might want to look into dnsjava for such functionality.

The easiest way to use MiniDNS is by its high-level API. Simply add the minidns-hla Maven artifact to your projects dependencies. For example with gradle

compile "de.measite.minidns:minidns-hla:$minidnsVersion"

Then you can use the ResolverApi like this

ResolverResult<A> result = ResolverApi.DNSSEC.resolve("verteiltesysteme.net", A.class);
if (!result.wasSuccessful()) {
	RESPONSE_CODE responseCode = result.getResponseCode();
	// Error handling
	return;
}
if (!result.isAuthenticData()) {
	// Response was not secured with DNSSEC
	return;
}
Set<A> answers = result.getAnswers();

MiniDNS comes with a REPL which can be used to perform DNS lookups and to test the library. Simple use ./repl to start the REPL.

minidns $ ./repl
...
scala> c.query("measite.de", TYPE.A)
res4: de.measite.minidns.DNSMessage = DNSMessage@54653(QUERY NO_ERROR qr rd ra) { \
  [Q: measite.de.	IN	A] \
  [A: measite.de.	3599	IN	A	85.10.226.249] \
  [X: EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512]
}