Connect Eclipse to Android emulator on a different machine

Question

Can\'t seem to find the following information although I\'m pretty sure this should be possible: I\'m running an Android emulator on a machine A. I\'m developing on another

Answer 1

In the meantime, I found a very nice solution to the problem. I installed android-x86 (http://www.android-x86.org) in a virtual machine. On the host, you then use the following commands to restart adb and connect to the vm:

adb kill-server
adb connect :5555

Replace VM-IP with the actual IP of your virtual machine. If you're on a private network, the easiest way is to configure vm network as bridged so the VM gets its own IP address from the dhcp server. Should also work with Host-Only networks though as described here.

If all went well, you should see the android VM in the Eclipse debugger just like normal emulators.