Android Emulator Networking

Android Networking Issues :

connect form host to emulator , connect from emulator to host machine , ping host from emulator , ping emulator from host , server running in emulator and connect from through host, server running in host machine and connect from emulator

One of the simplest (but time eater) scenario I have faced is networking between your Android emulator and your Host machine.

Two problems I have faced are :

1) Connect Emulator to a Server running in host machine

2) Connect Host Machine to Server running in emulator

Out of these two, second one became real headache for me. But atlast solution I found was so simple.

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Solution 1  : Connect emulator to server running in host machine :

For emullator , IP address of host machine is 10.0.2.2

So you can use this IP to connect to your host machine, for example:

Let us assume a web application ""sample" is running at port 8084 in your host machine.

Type

http://10.0.2.2:8084/sample

and press enter, it will print your desired output.

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Solution 2:

Connect Host machine to server running in emulator :

By default emulator IP is 10.0.2.15 , but problem you will be facing is you can not connect using this IP and even

you can not ping this IP.

So solution I found was port redirection, very simple to do :

Assume one instance of emulator is running

Steps:

i) open command prompt

ii) type " telnet localhost 5554 "  ans press enter  

iii)type " redir add tcp:fromPort:whichPort " and press enter

Step 3 here redirect your request, mean any request you will make using localhost:fromPort will deliver to emulator:toPort

iv) you can del redirection using command :

redir del tcp:fromPort

v) If you are working with udp, then use udp instead of tcp in command