AVD Emulator Browser won't use hosts file

Issue

I'm pretty frustrated with this one. I have a dev web server running a service feed for my Android app. I can browse to it from any number of machines.

On the AVD (and I've tried different versions all the same) I remount rw and pull, edit then push back the host file to system/etc/hosts. In the DDMS I see the date updated and if I pull it back off the changes are there.

Further if I go to a command prompt then run adb shell and ping the testhost name I get a reply from the correct ip. So why?????? will the avd browser not load the page. Oh yes the page. Plain HTML that says YES I am working.

In the end if I don't browse to the html page that's fine but since I need my app to query my service (hosted same site) for development and testing purposes I was thinking this would be a good test for connectivity before trying to have my app make a request to the service.

Stumped. .....

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Solved!!!

My windows background has me editing a hosts file with IP then tab then host name. Well I followed some instructions that had me edit the hosts from the adb shell. That worked...huh??? so I pulled the file and opened in Edit+ only to find I was shooting muyself in the foot. Only *ONE space between the ip and host name. It is working great now.

Solution

My windows background has me editing a hosts file with IP then tab then host name. Well I followed some instructions that had me edit the hosts from the adb shell. That worked...huh??? so I pulled the file and opened in Edit+ only to find I was shooting muyself in the foot. Only *ONE space between the ip and host name. It is working great now. If in doubt I would highly recommend updating your host file without pulling the file to the desktop. This is the command from the shell to do so.

./adb -s [DeviceID] shell
echo '###.###.###.###   [HostName/URl]' >> /etc/hosts
exit

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NOTE The above command is not every step needed just the command to actually edit the file from the shell. You still need to have write perms etc.

Answered By - GPGVM