Comments on: Ever tried ‘localhost’ with the android emulator ?

By: Misha Chandan

Misha Chandan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:51:38 +0000

Hey , its great to know “10.0.2.2″.

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:10:46 +0000

So i’m still stuck on this.
I can add dns with the -dns-server option but it doesn’t help if i can’t change the alias being 10.0.2.3-6.
If i could change the alias then the dns server option would work.

Any idea?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:04:07 +0000

This works only if your host is accessible from outside/through the internet. I doubt that every developer wants to forward port 80 to their developer machine just to get some pages loaded from a server that could be access from your device in the same network. And your sample works only on windows as the path must be modified if you use linux…

By: suryakanta

suryakanta — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:58:57 +0000

Apart from this you can also access your local host by using your IP address provided by your ISP(check http://www.ip-adress.com/)

if you want to access an HTML (say abc.html located in wamp>www>folder1>subfolder1>abc.html) then in case of android browser type”http://YOUR_IP(get it from ipconfig in command prompt)”/folder1/subfolder1/abc.html

incase you want to get access through code(say to the file xyz.php which is located in the same path ) then add the following line:::
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(“http://YOUR_IP(refer above)/folder1/subfolder1/xyz.php”)

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:08:40 +0000

Thanks, how would one go about a subdomain though?
If my subdomain is : sub.localhost what should i type?
sub.10.0.0.2 doesn’t work of course.

Thanks in advance

By: crisanto

crisanto — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:20:58 +0000

i’m not an android developer, but this was very helpful in testing my SharePoint sites..Thanks!

By: Orijit

Orijit — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:00:05 +0000

Very helpful.

By: caruso

caruso — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:51:56 +0000

Still very helpfull

By: Unoti

Unoti — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:11:30 +0000

Thanks! Worked great.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:00:55 +0000

When your webserver reacts on an ip adress you type in the adressbar of your browser on the pc, you should be able to see your webpage. It is also possible, that your webserver doesn’t allow access from other than localhost. In that case it still will fail.