This is a query regarding the usage of adb on android.
Is there a way to forward the remote port i.e. port on the android device/emulator to the local machine to which the device is connected?
$ adb forward tcp:port1 tcp:port2 # forwards the local port port1 on the machine to port2 on the device.
Thanks in advance!
Recently google updated ADB service. And added reverse
command that should do the job.
From reverse documentation:
This implements the adb reverse
feature, i.e. the ability to reverse
socket connections from a device to the host. <forward-command>
is one
of the forwarding commands that are described above, as in:
list-forward
forward:<local>;<remote>
forward:norebind:<local>;<remote>
killforward-all
killforward:<local>
Note that in this case, <local>
corresponds to the socket on the device
and <remote>
corresponds to the socket on the host.
The output of reverse:list-forward
is the same as host:list-forward
except that <serial>
will be just host
.
Do you truly need to forward the port or are you just looking for a way to communicate using sockets from a program running on the android shell to your host machine? I was able to accomplish the latter by sending my message to the port of interest on "10.0.2.2", which is the loopback adapter of the host machine. See docs here.
EDIT
This is the updated link