Mac lion can't connect to Socket when use Android emulator - macos

Question

When I use Windows to run eclipse Android emulator to connect socket,it was successful.
However, when I use Mac os lion to run the "Same" code ,the emulator shows"unfortunately
client test was stop!!"please help me solve this.And I already add the permission to internet!
package com.example.testclientokok;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
try {
Socket socket=new Socket(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 8888);
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
return true;
}
}
server part
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
public class MyServer {
public static void main(String[] args){
ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
Socket socket = null;
DataInputStream dataInputStream = null;
DataOutputStream dataOutputStream = null;
try {
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8888);
System.out.println("Listening :8888");
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
while(true){
try {
socket = serverSocket.accept();
dataInputStream = new DataInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
dataOutputStream = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
System.out.println("ip: " + socket.getInetAddress());
System.out.println("message: " + dataInputStream.readUTF());
dataOutputStream.writeUTF("Hello!");
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally{
if( socket!= null){
try {
socket.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if( dataInputStream!= null){
try {
dataInputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
if( dataOutputStream!= null){
try {
dataOutputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you are executing MyServer on your machine, where you also run the emulator. If the Activity running in the emulator wants to establish a connection with MyServer, then it should use the following IP address : 10.0.2.2 (and not localhost, which references the emualor loopback interface).
See http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#networkaddresses