element-hq / element-hq/element-android

Log in to Matrix homeserver via IP address

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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
beside current feature, add additional approach to select homeserver, by providing the IP address of homeserver.

#### Why would you like to do it?

For self-hosting homeserver and for specific region in the world which some domain name is hidden by local name service pollution.

#### How would you like to achieve it?

Directly send data packet and request to the target IP address without DNS query.

### Have you considered any alternatives?

Of course, the traditional homeserver selection method is recommended, but it would be nice to provide this way as alternative.

### Additional context

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