You gave no reason as to why you would do this? By this I am trying to understand if there is a better way to do this, as generally from what I've read, and based on small size and limited battery of phones, you don't generally want to run a server on it. Maybe you are doing something the wrong way, hence why I am asking why you need to do this. If your intention is to actually allow someone to run a mobile server, possibly with say, wifi hotspot capabilities so that you can run a web server for demos or something without having to take a laptop, then..maybe it might make some sense. But if you're trying to run a server so that you can pull data off the phone from a web server somewhere else.. there are better ways to do this.
As for actually having a browser reach the phone, the only way that would be possible that I know if is if the phone is on wifi, and you obtain the phones ip address. Then in the browser you use the ip address. I don't know if a phone on 3g/4g gets a viable ip address that you can use outside from anywhere or not. I would guess not. Much like many ISPs don't want you running a server at home, I would think the carriers don't want or allow for a static IP for example on their phones. If your server software on the phone can obtain the ip the phone is assigned, then update no-ip.com or dyndns.org for example, and you can then give out a domain name that is tied to one of those accounts, it may be possible to reach the phone from anywhere assuming the dhcp ip on the phone is updated properly and it works. I am curious though if the carriers might block "get" requests and such to phones. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:54 PM, SREEHARI <harisre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > What I need is to fetch data from a service running in the phone/ > emulator (android device) to a browser running in some other device. > Let the second device be a PC. That s what I asked how to get data in > a normal browser from an android application. > > Regards, > Sreehari. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
