12/23/10

Android Emulator - Use Localhost Web Server

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If you are using the Android emulator, and you are trying to reach your web pages in your local development machine, you will soon realize that the emulator can't reach your local web server using localhost, the machine IP address or the machine name. There is however a simple explanation for this. The emulator has its own localhost loopback interface (127.0.0.1).  This means that when you type http://localhost/mypage.aspx, the emulator tries to reach its own loopback interface, and this is probably what you do not need.

There is an easy resolution for this. You can reach the development machine using IP address 10.0.2.2 which is a special alias to the loopback interface for the computer hosting the emulator. Your url should then look as follows: http://10.0.2.2/mypage

I hope this helps.


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