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Step by Step guide to install and configure android emulator

We all require to see or test our site or application on a widely used android emulator, I spent a lot of time on internet just to see how to configure the same, I am consolidating those steps and writing in my blog post, so that it might be helpful for someone somewhere around the globe. Below is a step by step guide on how to install and configure Andriod emulator on Windows machine. 1) Install JDK first  if already not installed in the system, path as follows             http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html  2) After Successful Installation, Install  Android SDK manager from  http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html   or (The following latest version, which might get outdated over time) http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r21-windows.exe  3) After Successful installation, Open SDK manager Make sure everything gets installed, If it doesn’t...

Localhost from an Android Emulator

ANDROID EMULATOR ON WINDOWS In this tutorial we shall be discussing about accessing localhost server from Android SDK, ofcourse first you need to have that emulator installed on you machine, you can do it from Android SDK official site  . So I am not gonna go into nerd stuff, keeping it short and simple. Now the problem arises in that localhost is not accessible once we type http://localhost/ on our emulators, so how to access that, well pretty simple, just type the following address instead. http://10.0.2.2/ or http://10.0.2.2/yourfoldername and you are good to go. I googled it but couldn't find this simple url, so posting it, may be you can save your time. Happy Coding !!