Configure Android emulator to access web app hosted on local machine

If you want to access a web application hosted on your local machine hosted with xampp or mamp configured with custom local domain using virtualhost from an Android emulator, do the following:

1. Create AVD with Google APIs image (not Google Play image)
2. Execute the following commands:

adb root
adb remount
adb pull /system/etc/hosts .
nano hosts

1. Add your required entries like the following:

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             ip6-localhost
10.0.2.2        your.custom.domain

1. After that Execute the following commands

adb push hosts /system/etc/hosts
adb reboot

Comments

[neoacevedo]

adb remount
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