I’m pretty frustrated with this one. I have a dev web server running a service feed for my Android app. I can browse to it from any number of machines.
On the AVD (and I’ve tried different versions all the same) I remount rw and pull, edit then push back the host file to system/etc/hosts. In the DDMS I see the date updated and if I pull it back off the changes are there.
Further if I go to a command prompt then run adb shell and ping the testhost name I get a reply from the correct ip. So why?????? will the avd browser not load the page. Oh yes the page. Plain HTML that says YES I am working.
In the end if I don’t browse to the html page that’s fine but since I need my app to query my service (hosted same site) for development and testing purposes I was thinking this would be a good test for connectivity before trying to have my app make a request to the service.
Stumped.
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Solved!!!
My windows background has me editing a hosts file with IP then tab then host name. Well I followed some instructions that had me edit the hosts from the adb shell. That worked…huh??? so I pulled the file and opened in Edit+ only to find I was shooting muyself in the foot. Only *ONE space between the ip and host name. It is working great now.
My windows background has me editing a hosts file with IP then tab then host name. Well I followed some instructions that had me edit the hosts from the adb shell. That worked…huh??? so I pulled the file and opened in Edit+ only to find I was shooting muyself in the foot. Only *ONE space between the ip and host name. It is working great now. If in doubt I would highly recommend updating your host file without pulling the file to the desktop. This is the command from the shell to do so.
NOTE The above command is not every step needed just the command to actually edit the file from the shell. You still need to have write perms etc.