Calling web service from android device

Question

I have written a web service locally using python flask framework which runs on localhost:5000 , I run this web service successfully from my computers browser by writing http://localhost:5000/toi/something

Now I am trying to call same service from the browser of my android device by connecting it with the machine. I am doing this for the first time so I am not sure whether it works this way or I am doing something wrong but it does not show me the output on my android device. Once this is done I will be calling the web service programatically in my android application.

Thank You

Answer 1

I don't think that will work, if you´ve got the phone connected to the same Wifi network than your computer you should access it this way:

http://ipofyourcomputer:5000/toi/something/

Once this works out you can try it with some of the libraries available on Android like:

OkHttp - https://github.com/square/okhttp

android-async-http - http://loopj.com/android-async-http/

Volley - https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/volley

Or if you're building a REST service you can use:

Retrofit - http://square.github.io/retrofit/

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

My problem solved by turning off windows firewall.