How to connect to a http server running in android emulator?

Question

I have a HTTP server working on my android emulator listening to port 8080. How can I connect to it from same PC's browser? I tried 127.0.0.1 but it couldn't connect.

Answer 1

You have to enable port forwarding in adb. For example:

adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080

This will forward incoming connections to localhost TCP/8080 to the emulator TCP/8080.

Here's the reference.