> 'meteor run android' runs app and launches android emulator but I cannot find or run the application inside the emulator

Question

To get started wtih android development, I am using the example application 'todos' from percolate studio From Ubuntu 14.04 console running in VMWare Workstation 10, I can successfully run the todos application

gbdmeteor@ubuntu:~/todophone/todos$ meteor run android
Starting android emulator                                                  
[[[[[ ~/todophone/todos ]]]]]   

=> Started proxy.               
=> Started MongoDB.                                                        
=> Started Cordova (android).                                   
=> Started your app.                                                       

=> App running at: http://localhost:3000/

this launches android emulator but I cannot find/run the target application (todos) in the emulator. What am I missing?

Answer 1

1. Using http://localhost:3000 does not work because localhost only means something in the context of the host OS. Open Android's browser and go to my host computer's IP address: 192.168.56.130:3000 Then the meteor app comes up, just like in browser.

2. If I quit meteor app (ctl-c from commandline) and leave the android emulator running, and then I 'meteor run android' from the commandline again... Meteor successfully loads, installs icon and launches the application!!

Now I must load the app to real android device and see if camera works.

Answer 2

This worked for me:

$ export BIND_IP=[YOUR LOCAL IP, ie. 192.168.1.x]
$ meteor run android

If it's not already done, do not forget to install the API 22 in Android Studio beforehand.