Accessing Tor on Android device via a virtual wifi network
Local is a separate interface on your laptop, just like your ethernet adapter and Wi-Fi adapter.  Just because a program listens on 127.0.0.1:1080 (localhost SOCKS proxy) does not mean that it will listen on another interface. &quot;Access the laptop's localhost from my device&quot; is not possible.  Proxies, that are not intended for public use, normally listen only on localhost for security reasons.
If you MUST connect to the laptop's localhost SOCKS port, you need &quot;TCP tunnel&quot; software running on your laptop to listen on a reachable interface and redirect it to the local interface.  Realize that you are creating a security risk if you do, because the Tor client on your laptop won't be able to tell whether it's you connecting to the local socks proxy port.  It's been a decade since I last looked for &quot;TCP tunnel&quot; or &quot;TCP proxy&quot; software, so I don't know which to suggest -- you'll have to research it.