Android Studio localhost API

To access the server from itself, use http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/ . To access the server from a separate computer on the same network, use http://192.168.X.X where X.X is your server’s local IP address. You can find the sever’s local IP address (assuming it’s Linux) by running hostname -I . 127.0.

As you’ve learned, when you use the emulator, localhost ( 127.0. 0.1 ) refers to the device’s own loopback service, not the one on your machine as you may expect . You can use 10.0. 2.2 to access your actual machine, it is an alias set up to help in development.

In our case, localhost means is that our services are running in our local system on a specific port . So instead of localhost we just have to use our system’s IP address.

On your mobile device’s browser (any will work), navigate to http://<Local IP Address>:<port number> . For example, if I was serving on localhost:8080 and my local IP address is 123.45. 67.890, on my mobile device’s browser I would navigate to http://123.45.67.890:8080 . The http:// is important, don’t leave it off.