More info for devices scan can be nice about vernet HOT 6 CLOSED

nsd retrieve mDNS name and Hostname and it looks like it is well maintained.
It seems that the scan is going to retrieve the IP as well which will make it much easier for us to combine the info bout the device with our IP list.
So let's wait for this feature to get implemented, it will save us a lot of work
sebastianhaberey/nsd#7

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As getting Mac address #7 has some kind of blocker we can resolve this by adding native dependencies depending on the platform.

I am sure there is one for Android and IOS.

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I think for mDNS our best option for now is to implement android/ios only package and do it here and not part of network_tools.

Our options are nsd, flutter_mdns_plugin, mdns_plugin.

For Flutter Linux we can try executing bash commands like avahi-browse --all or mdns-scan but both of them do not come by default with Linux and are required to get installed separately by the user.

It looks like avahi-browse --all also shows the list of service types (the picture do not include mDNS names for security reasons)

And it looks like it found only tcp service type, I think I also have udp.
Having the option to search only all the tcp or searching for a list of known devices names can also be a good start.

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The feature got implemented, will remove the blocker now

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I am having trouble getting Host-name of devices on Android.
I think it is dart bug and not our code
Opened issue for that in dart-lang SDK repo.

The code supposes to work when the bug is fixed without changing anything.

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The issue moved from dart-lang SDK repo to flutter repo as it is only on flutter android.

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