Getting Android to talk to Apache on localhost
<p>My Android application talks to a php server.  I have Apache/php running locally on WAMP Server.  I am running Windows 7.  If I go to localhost on Windows 7 the site shows but on the phone it will look for localhost on the current Android OS so no site shows. </p>

<p>I managed to get around this by opening my apache configuration to the internet and then using my external IP address, this is annoying because I am on a dynamic IP and sometimes don't have internet (+ not secure).</p>

<p>How do I make a http request from android access localhost (or another alias in the hosts file)?</p>
