Hi, Here is how I test in your scenario. Instead of trying to connect my android device to my laptop via a usb cable, I do it through a wireless connection I set the android device to connect via WIFI to a wireless access point running on my laptop.
So, that means on my laptop I have a wireless adapter. The wireless adapter must be capable of "master" mode. I use hostpd http://w1.fi/hostapd/ to set authentication (and restrict radius). I use dhcp to allocate a static ip address to my android device. Finally I set the route on my laptop to accept the static ip address assigned by dhcp. Note! I use Linux pretty much exclusively. Therefore, I'm not sure how any of the above is applied to other operating systems. Hope that helps a little :) Jason On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 3:24:27 PM UTC-6, David Karr wrote: > > If I have an unrooted Android device, a USB cable, and a laptop, can I run > a web or application server on my laptop and test a site running on that > server on the Android device? > > I know I can do some testing with the Android emulator, but I'd like other > options. > -- 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
