Hi Kristopher, It is just for development, but I do not want to root my own devices since, you know, I want to try my applications in devices closed to users ones, that are not rooted usually. Moreover, If I root my devices it may not work properly with services like Google Play, and I use them also to check downloaded packages from Google Play and so.
And I have not infrastructure yet to have several devices rooted and several non-rooted for checking both things. To be honest, I have just two devices for development: one is my own phone and the other is my wife's one X-D Things may be easier if my DLS router and WIFI AP had DNS server capabilities, but it has not, so I should configure a Bind or something similar in some of my other computers and then instruct the router to use its IP as primary DNS server for DHCP configuration. A pain in the... The other way could be to do this programmatically, so... is there any way to configure a host resolution table just within my application through Android? I cannot just use the IP addresses directly, because I will access some virtual servers through HTTP and the requests to these must include its domain name, since they share the same IP address. Regards, On 08/06/12 17:30, Kristopher Micinski wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> When I develop a dynamic web site I used to change the /etc/hosts file >> on my linux boxes and the equivalent on Windows ones to test the site on >> different browsers, so I add a line in the way of: >> >> 192.168.1.21 devel.mysite.com >> >> So when I put http://devel.mysite.com on a browser, it connects to my >> development Apache server. >> >> So what I'd like to do it is the same on my Android device, I think I >> cannot edit /etc/hosts file on it at least while it is not rooted, but >> if there is other way to do this it will be enough. >> > That's right, you'll need root to do this.. typically mods do this > sort of thing to disable ads across the system... > >> I know there are complexer ways to do this, like setting up a DNS server >> on my own network and give it through DHCP to the device when its >> connected to my WIFI access point, but I rather like to do it in a >> simpler manner if there is any... >> > Hmm.. That's also right, you can't really modify the system internals > without root or firmware mods, but, as you note, setting up DNS, > etc... > > Wait, why are you doing this again? Is this something you want to > work just for your development device, or do you want it to work > across apps? > > kris > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
