It might be obvious linux savvy folks, but trying to access localhost or 127.0.0.1 with the android emulator in order to access a local server for testing won’t get you anywhere. That’s because the IP is used internally by the undlying linux as you might have guessed.
Luckily there’s an IP you can use to achieve hitting your local apache/tomcat/whatever : 10.0.2.2
One of the annoyances anyone starting android development has to go through is getting hold of the android sdk sourcecode.
Surprisingly the sourcecode does not come bundled with the sdk, nor is there a way to get it seperately as an android-src.jar like with the sun sdks. To top it off, you actually can get the sources by google – but only using MacOS or *nix to check out from their repository.
Even with the recommended OS this is far from a trivial task but concerning developers using windows it’s unfriendly to say the least.
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