How to browse localhost on Android device

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I try to browse localhost on my HTC Magic  I have connected my device with Eclipse via USB  When browsing http   10 0 2 2 I get  Page not available   I remember  some days ago it worked   But on the emulator I am able to browse localhost  Any ideas

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If you want to access a server running on your PC from your Android device via your wireless network, first run the command ipconfig on your PC (use run (Windows logo + R), cmd, ipconfig).

Note the IPv4 address: (it should be 192.168.0.x) for some x. Use this as the server IP address, together with the port number, e.g. 192.168.0.7:8080, in your code.

Your Android device will then access the server via your wireless network router.

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I use my local ip for that i e  192 168 0 1 and it works

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For the mac user   I have worked on this problem for one afternoon until I realized the Xampp I used was not the real  Xampp  It was Xampp VM which runs itself based on a Linux virtual machine  That made it not running on localhost  instead  another IP  I installed the real Xampp and run my local server on localhost and then just access it with the IP of my mac   Hope this will help someone

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Mac OSX Users  If your phone and laptop are on the same wifi   Go to System Preferences  gt  Network to obtain your IP address  On your mobile browser  type  your IP address  3000 to access localhost 3000  e g  12 45 123 456 3000

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Combining a few of the answers above plus one other additional item solved the problem for me    As mentioned above  turn your firewall off  add a specific rule allowing the incoming connections to the port once you ve successfully connected  Find you IP address via ipconfig as mentioned above Verify that your webserver is binding to the ip address found above and not just 127 0 0 1  Test this locally by browsing to the ip address and port  E g  192 168 1 113 8888  If it s not  find a solution  E g  https   groups google com forum  fromgroups   topic google-appengine-java z4rtqkKO2hg Now test it out on your Android device  Note that I also turned off my data connection and exclusively used a wifi connection on my Android

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to access localhost on emulator  10 0 2 2  However this may not always work for example if you have something other than a web server such as XMPP server   assuming that you re on the same wireless network      find your local ip  should be something 192 168 1 x  - go to the command line and type  ipconfig  to get this  where x is the assigned local ip of the server machine  use your local ip for your android device to connect to your localhost    it worked for me

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Easier way to check is in browser of emulator type 10 0 2 2 instead of localhost   Reference for localhost  Hope that helps

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If your firewall is on  turn it off and use IPv4 to test your app in the actual device  then test your application

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I had similar issue but I could not resolve it using static ip address or changing firewall settings  I found a useful utility which can be configured in a minute   We can host our local web server on cloud for free  On exposing it on cloud we get a different URL which we can use instead of localhost and access the webserver from anywhere   The utility is ngrok https   ngrok com download Steps    Signup Download Extract the file and double click to run it  this will open a command prompt Type  ngrok exe http 80  without quotes to host for example XAMPP apache server which runs on port 80   Copy the new url name generated on the cmd prompt for e g  if it is like this  fafb42f ngrok io    URL like   http   localhost php test php Should be modified like this   http   fafb42f ngrok io php test php  Now this URL can be accessed from phone

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You can get a public URL for your server running on a specific port on localhost    At my work place I could access the local server by using the local IP address of my machine in the app  as most of the other answers suggest  But at home I wasn t able to do that for some reason  After trying many answers and spending many hours  I came across https   ngrok com  It is pretty straight forward  Just download it from within the folder do   ngrok portnumber     from command prompt in windows     ngrok portnumber    from terminal in linux   This will give you a public URL for your local server running on that port number on localhost  You can include in your app and debug it using that URL   You can securely expose a local web server to the internet and capture all traffic for detailed inspection  You can share the URL with your colleague developer also who might be working remotely and can debug the App Server interaction   Hope this saves someone s time someday

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If your localhost is not running on the default HTTP port which is port 80   you need to specify the port in your url to something that corresponds to the port on which your localhost is running  E g  If your localhost is running on  say port 85  Your url should be  http   10 0 2 2 85

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I used ngrok but now it need registration and it also has a connections request limit  Now I m using LocalTunnel and so far it s much better

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I use testproxy to do this   npm install testproxy  testproxy http   10 0 2 2   You then get the url  and QR code  you can access on your mobile device  It even works with virtual machines you can t reach by just entering the IP of your dev machine

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I needed to see localhost on my android device as well  Samsung S3  as I was developing a Java Web-application  By far the fastest and easiest way is to go to this link and follow instructions  https   developer chrome com devtools docs remote-debugging    Note  You have to use Google Chrome   My summary of the above link    Connect PC with Phone over USB  Turn on Phone s  Developer options  from Settings Go to about inspect URL in PC s browser Check  Discover USB Devices   forward Ports if you are using them in your web-application  Copy paste localhost required link to text field in browser and click Open    Piece of cake

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