How can I access an emulator running on a computer from an emulator running on other computer on same lan using Socket and ServerSocket?

Question

There will be two emulators running. One of them is running on computer A. The other one is running on computer B. A and B are on same lan. I want to use Socket, ServerSocket classes. How can possible these two emulators see each other?

Answer 1

See the " Interconnecting Emulator Instances " part here http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/emulator.html

Interconnecting Emulator Instances
To allow one emulator instance to communicate with another, you must set up the necessary network redirection as illustrated below.
Assume that your environment is

A is you development machine

B is your first emulator instance, running on A

C is your second emulator instance, also running on A

and you want to run a server on B, to which C will connect, here is how you could set it up:

1. Set up the server on B, listening to 10.0.2.15:
   1. On B's console, set up a redirection from A:localhost: to B:10.0.2.15:
2. On C, have the client connect to 10.0.2.2:

For example, if you wanted to run an HTTP server, you can select as 80 and as 8080:

B listens on 10.0.2.15:80

On B's console, issue redir add tcp:8080:80

C connects to 10.0.2.2:8080