Android Studio - Android Emulator Wifi Connected with No Internet

Question

I have wasted a whole day trying out different solutions floating around in SO and other place mentioned to enable wifi on the android emulator but to no avail. Can anybody help me figure out how do I enable internet on my android emulator?

I have Nexus 5X API 27 and target being Android 8.1 (Google Play) and Nexus 5 API P and target being Android 7.1.1.

I believe there should be a way to enable internet on it or else the whole point of providing virtual wifi on the emulator seems to be waste.

I am on mac OS HS 10.13.4 directly connected to my router with no proxy.

I even tried deleting all the AVDs, re-installing them. I even tried having installed the latest Pixel 2 with Oreo Android 8.1

Nothing seems to be working. Has anybody faced this issue and found a solution?

Any help would be of great help

Thanks, Vikram

Update: When I connect my computer through my phone as hotspot wifi, the emulator has internet through wifi, but it fails when I connect my computer to my home router.

Answer 1

Stated below are the solutions for Windows and Mac, but similar solutions will work in any OS:

1. On Windows

   • Open Network and Sharing Center and click on current Connection
   • Click on Properties
   • Double Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)

   • Set the Preferred and Alternate DNS servers as (Screenshot below) :

     8.8.8.8
     8.8.4.4
     

2. On Mac

   • Go to Settings > Network > Advanced... > DNS

   • Delete whatever entries you have there and add these two entries (Screenshot below):

     8.8.8.8
     8.8.4.4
     

     _{Note: For Mac users, if the entries field is disabled and you're not able to edit it, click on the 'Lock' icon in the bottom area of that window and enter the password to be able to make changes}

Restart the emulator and it should solve:

Screenshots:

1. Windows

2. Mac

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Edit: This is the fix for a situation when the emulator's wifi has changed the DNS to something other than 8.8.8.8. While this works most of the time, there might also be other reasons which may not fix from this solution.

Answer 2

@TheBaj : I figured the problem with this and fixed it. The problem is when you are connected through the router, the androidwifi in your emulator uses the settings and the sets the DNS to something other than 8.8.8.8 which is the google DNS(I presume this is kinda mandatory setting for the androidwifi to gain internet access). But if i change the DNS in my network settings, the google-services plugin which fetches your dependencies especially the one's getting downloaded from jcenter() will not be downloaded and hence your sync will fail which eventually fails your build.

So the trick is that you have your google DNS(8.8.8.8) configured in your network settings after your default router settings - this part takes care of downloading the dependencies from jcenter() and the sync and build succeeds.

Now launch your emulator with emulator @Nexus_5X_API_27 -dns-server 8.8.8.8 command from the terminal which forces the emulator to use 8.8.8.8 as its DNS and the emulator will have internet.

I am working on a react-native app, so for me android studio is needless and i have configured my bashrc to launch the different emulators as follows,

   function emunex5 {
    emulator @Nexus_5X_API_27 -dns-server 8.8.8.8
 }

  function emunex6 {
    emulator @Nexus_6_API_27 -dns-server 8.8.8.8
  }

  function emupix {
    emulator @Pixel_XL_API_27 -dns-server 8.8.8.8
   }

So from one terminal i launch the emulator of my choice and then run the build on another terminal which runs my app on the launched emulator and MY FREAKING EMULATOR HAS INTERNET ACCESS. :)

Try this out and i hope this helps.

Thanks, Vikram

Answer 3

I have solved with google dns on network adapter 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Answer 4

My solution using Mac OSX 10.13

I read about it being caused by LAN card and WiFi being enabled, and some approaches seemed complicated to me, so I simply tried this, and it worked:

• Disabled WiFi on my laptop.
• Switched off the emulator.
• Did a cold boot on the emulator (AVD Manager -> on emulator actions -> Cold Boot Now).
• After reboot with WiFi disabled the emulator showed proper WiFi connection. I then enabled WiFi on my laptop and everything worked.

Answer 5

Well, I did it this way:

Steps to add manual proxy:

1. Go to Emulator settings
2. Go to Proxy tab
3. Set Manual proxy configuration
4. Add your Host name & Port number
5. Click on Apply

Reference screen shot:

Hope it helps.

Answer 6

On Windows :

After testing some solutions, I found my one by clicking the down arrow on the AVD, option "Cold Boot Now". after booting, Android had access to internet so it worked for me.