test the localhost in android emulator

Question

My web application runs in localhost server. In my emulator the URL is http://localhost:8080/myaction

Is it possible to retrieve the information from the server?

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Answer 1

Localhost is device's own loopback interface, if you're trying to access your development machine use 10.0.2.2.

More about it here.

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thank u. and how to get the database connection from our web application. i want to retrieve the data from database i like listview in android pls help me – Resurrect

yeah... i'm not sure that the 10.0.2.2 is pointing to 127.0.0.1:8080 instead of 127.0.0.1 only. Hey, anyway, have you solved it @saravanan? – Phillip