androiddjango-rest-frameworkandroid-volley

How to access a locally running django REST project api from android app?

I have a django REST project which is locally running on my laptop. I am developing an android app to use an api provided by this django project. Both my laptop and android device are connected to the same wifi network. I am using android volly library to access the api. What i have tried is

  1. From terminal run ifconfig ang got inet addr. Let it be 192.168.1.8.

  2. Inside android volly used the url "http://192.168.1.8:8000/api_part/". (The project is running on port 8000)

Then the response i am getting from volly is 

 com.android.volley.NoConnectionError: java.net.ConnectException: failed to connect to /192.168.1.8 (port 8000) after 2500ms: isConnected failed: ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)

Am i using a wrong url to access the api? If not then how to acess this locally running project from android app?

Solution

  • Make sure you start the run server with the correct IP or bind it on all IPs:

    $ python manage.py 0.0.0.0:8000