Nativescript accessing localhost access in android and ios

Question

I have a local node rest api running on my system.

My question is ,when accessing localhost from android we are supposed to use 10.0.2.2. And When using ios we can

Answer 1

Adding the typescript version of the answer

import {platformNames} from "platform";
import {device} from "platform";

  var nativePlatformLocalhost;

     /*in some function or globally*/
    if(device.os === platformNames.ios){
     /*localhost for ios*/
     nativePlatformLocalhost= "localhost";
   }
  else if(device.os === platformNames.android){
    /*localhost for android*/
    nativePlatformLocalhost= "10.0.2.2";
    }