You can access your host machine with the IP address “10.0. 2.2 “. This has been designed in this way by the Android team. So your webserver can perfectly run at localhost and from your Android app you can access it via “http://10.0.2.2:8080”.
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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.
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How do I go to localhost in Chrome?
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Accessing localhost from the iPhone will simply do a loopback / try to connect to itself (If it supports that?). What you need to do is find the IP of your desktop machine (e.g. If Windows, go to the Command Prompt and type ipconfig or go to Network and Sharing Centre and look up connection status .
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