Getting Android to talk to Apache on localhost

Question

My Android application talks to a php server. I have Apache/php running locally on WAMP Server. I am running Windows 7. If I go to localhost on Windows 7 the site shows b

Answer 1

In general, you can't.

What you can do, if the computer is on the same wireless network as the Android device, is connect to the computer's internal IP. For example, on a typical home wifi router, the router is at 192.168.1.1, and the devices connected to it are 192.168.1.x. So if your Windows 7 PC is at 192.168.1.5, you should be able to access this from your Android device just fine...