Android Studio - Android Emulator Wifi Connected with No Internet

Question

I have wasted a whole day trying out different solutions floating around in SO and other place mentioned to enable wifi on the android emulator but to no avail. Can anybody help me figure out how do I enable internet on my android emulator?

I have Nexus 5X API 27 and target being Android 8.1 (Google Play) and Nexus 5 API P and target being Android 7.1.1.

I believe there should be a way to enable internet on it or else the whole point of providing virtual wifi on the emulator seems to be waste.

I am on mac OS HS 10.13.4 directly connected to my router with no proxy.

I even tried deleting all the AVDs, re-installing them. I even tried having installed the latest Pixel 2 with Oreo Android 8.1

Nothing seems to be working. Has anybody faced this issue and found a solution?

Any help would be of great help

Thanks, Vikram

Update: When I connect my computer through my phone as hotspot wifi, the emulator has internet through wifi, but it fails when I connect my computer to my home router.

Answer 1

Stated below are the solutions for Windows and Mac, but similar solutions will work on any OS:

1. On Windows

   • Open Network and Sharing Center and click on current Connection
   • Click on Properties
   • Double Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)

   • Set the Preferred and Alternate DNS servers as (Screenshot below) :

     8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 

2. On Mac

   • Go to Settings > Network > Advanced... > DNS

   • Delete whatever entries you have there and add these two entries (Screenshot below):

     8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 

     _{Note: For Mac users, if the entries field is disabled and you're not able to edit it, click on the 'Lock' icon in the bottom area of that window and enter the password to be able to make changes}

Restart the emulator, and it should solve:

Screenshots:

1. Windows

2. Mac

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Edit: This is the fix for a situation when the emulator's wifi has changed the DNS to some non-working DNS. While this works most of the time, there might also be other reasons which may not fix from this solution.

Answer 2

My solution using Mac OSX 10.13

I read about it being caused by LAN card and WiFi being enabled, and some approaches seemed complicated to me, so I simply tried this, and it worked:

• Disabled WiFi on my laptop.
• Switched off the emulator.
• Did a cold boot on the emulator (AVD Manager -> on emulator actions -> Cold Boot Now).
• After reboot with laptop WiFi disabled the emulator showed proper WiFi connection (emulator still shows AndroidWifi but is connected to my laptop internet. WiFi symbol now look like this: WiFi symbol connected)
• I then enabled WiFi on my laptop and everything worked.