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Vikram Mahishi
Vikram Mahishi

Reputation: 3321

Android Studio - Android Emulator Wifi Connected with No Internet

I have wasted a whole day trying out different solutions floating around in SO and other place mentioned to enable wifi on the android emulator but to no avail. Can anybody help me figure out how do I enable internet on my android emulator?

I have Nexus 5X API 27 and target being Android 8.1 (Google Play) and Nexus 5 API P and target being Android 7.1.1.

I believe there should be a way to enable internet on it or else the whole point of providing virtual wifi on the emulator seems to be waste.

I am on mac OS HS 10.13.4 directly connected to my router with no proxy.

I even tried deleting all the AVDs, re-installing them. I even tried having installed the latest Pixel 2 with Oreo Android 8.1

Nothing seems to be working. Has anybody faced this issue and found a solution?

Any help would be of great help

Thanks, Vikram

Update: When I connect my computer through my phone as hotspot wifi, the emulator has internet through wifi, but it fails when I connect my computer to my home router.

Upvotes: 252

Views: 255733

Answers (30)

ideaztech
ideaztech

Reputation: 2596

It doesn't matter if you are using Windows or MAC, you do not have to change your local PC network settings!

The older answers to this problem no longer work after 2020 (Using Android Studio 4.1.2 or newer). The problem is the DNS settings on the Emulator. It no longer works to just change the DNS Servers on your local PC. You have to change the DNS settings within the Emulator. The following steps are for an emulator running Android 11. Other versions will be similar:

  1. Open the Extended controls dialog that opens up to the right of the emulator. Click on Settings on the dialog menu. Click on Proxy at the top and make sure Use Android Studio Http proxy settings IS CHECKED. I emphasize this because many of the previous solutions said to uncheck this. However, on the latest versions, it works better to keep this checked. If it wasn't already checked, restart the emulator before proceeding Step 2. (NOTE: If your version doesn't show the Proxy Settings, then you can skip this step. We just want to make sure the Proxy settings are changed back to the default settings.)
  2. Navigate to the WiFi connection settings within the emulator: Home Screen -> Swipe up -> Settings -> Network & Internet -> Internet (AndroidWifi) -> click gear icon next to AndroidWiFi -> click Advanced dropdown near bottom of screen (If this option is not available for you its okay just skip this step and move to next one i.e. Swipe up) -> Swipe up to view to view Network Details.
  3. What does it say for DNS. If it is NOT 8.8.8.8, follow this to fix. Write down (or remember) the IP address and Gateway address displayed there in the network settings. We need those IP addresses to fill in as static.
  4. Click the pencil icon on the top to edit the Network details. Click the IP settings dropdown and change it to Static. Then enter the IP address and Gateway that you wrote down in step 2. Make sure DNS 1 is 8.8.8.8 and DNS 2 is 8.8.4.4. These filled in automatically for me.
  5. Close the emulator and restart it using the Cold Boot Now option.

This fixed it for me after I unsuccessfully tried all the other solutions found on this page and many others. I hope it works for you.

Upvotes: 239

Thang Tran
Thang Tran

Reputation: 321

My case, emulator android 11. If you use WARP 1.1.1.1 on Mac, try turn it on, it would help.

Upvotes: 1

mangu23
mangu23

Reputation: 880

What worked for me in mac was going to

File > Restart IDE

Upvotes: -2

Hamid Shoja
Hamid Shoja

Reputation: 4778

On Windows :

After testing some solutions, I worked on my case by clicking the down arrow on the AVD, option "Cold Boot Now". after booting, Android has access to the internet.

Upvotes: 8

Rahul Kumar Tiwari
Rahul Kumar Tiwari

Reputation: 129

After doing these steps make sure you don't have any VPN software active.

Open Network and Sharing Center

Right Click on current internet connection

Select Properties

Double Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)

Select Use the following DNS server address

Set the Preferred and Alternate DNS server

Prefered DNS Server : 8.8.8.8

Alternate DNS Server : 8.8.4.4

Click on OK

Restart Android AVD

Upvotes: 3

server_unknown
server_unknown

Reputation: 650

I tried all of these solutions with no results. I am using Windows 10 OS

What finally worked for me was:

1. Closing all instances of AVD devices

2. Navigating to:

C:\Users\userName\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator

3. Then entering the following command:

.\emulator.exe -avd avd_device_name -dns-server 8.8.8.8

Upvotes: 5

Whimsy Cat
Whimsy Cat

Reputation: 410

There are 2 ways to fix this bug.

  1. You should turn off android emulator and [cold boot] again. If the first method doesn't work ...
  2. You should turn on [Plane Mode] (on top menu of screen) and after a sec turn off again. Then Wi-Fi will connect to the internet.

Upvotes: 6

Aldy
Aldy

Reputation: 3102

My situation is I have internet connection in browser but not in Google map/Google play store. So I try to disable my VPN. Then it solve this issue and my emulator network is active

Upvotes: 1

Amrit Daimary
Amrit Daimary

Reputation: 9

Just restarting the android studio resolved the issue.

Upvotes: 0

Meseret Atsbeha
Meseret Atsbeha

Reputation: 9

Try disabling your antivirus and then restart your emulator that helped in my case.

Upvotes: 0

bazzil
bazzil

Reputation: 31

I tried all the above in WINDOWS 11 system without results. Finally i ran the check disk - chkdsk c: /f /r - and after PC restart i recreated the device. And it's finally worked.

Upvotes: 1

GOKU
GOKU

Reputation: 638

None of this worked for me then I turned on "Mobile HotSpot" on windows. It exists on Taskbar next to "Airplane Mode". Everything started working.

Upvotes: 1

yet.another.coder
yet.another.coder

Reputation: 390

Under Extended Controls ( which can be enabled by pressing the more button (3 dots ... ) at bottom.

Then under Proxy tab, Select no proxy.

Upvotes: 2

luvisoniasty
luvisoniasty

Reputation: 86

Solution for issue on Apple M1:

  1. Install one of the newest canary versions of Android Studio. Use the MAC ARM version (Apple Silicon).
  2. When creating a new virtual device use API Level S and arm64 virtual image. (could be found in other images)

Here is the link for the android studio releases list: https://developer.android.com/studio/archive

(Worked for me)

Upvotes: 3

Jayowl
Jayowl

Reputation: 290

This may not solve everyone's problem but I disconnected my wifi and used the Ethernet connection. This resolved my issue.

Upvotes: 0

Milo Chen
Milo Chen

Reputation: 3975

My environment is Android Studio 4.2.0 in Mac 11.3.1 Big Sur

Step 0. I close all of my emulator, and close Android Studio too .

Step 1. Then I open Android Studio. AVD Manager -> Cold Boot Now enter image description here

Step 2. Close Wifi on emulator. Then LTE can work enter image description here

Step 3. (Optional) By the way, My DNS setting of my mac Network is enter image description here

If step0 -> step 1 -> step 2 is not work, you can set DNS like step 3. and then go through Step0 -> Step1 -> Step2 again.

And it will work.

Upvotes: 21

bboyairwreck
bboyairwreck

Reputation: 471

On Android Studio 4.2, I was experience this issue where both Emulator Wifi/LTE was connected but no internet.

Solutions that did NOT work for me: Turning Wifi on and off, setting location/proxy, cold booting, wiping data, VPN, etc. None of the other solutions were working.

Solution that worked for me: Upgrading to Android Studio 4.2.1 and rebooting emulator.

Upvotes: 1

Faisal Shaikh
Faisal Shaikh

Reputation: 4138

If anyone quick fix:

Step 1: Go to AVD Manager

Step 2: Stop the device

Step 3: Run Android Studio project

Upvotes: 3

Tysseer
Tysseer

Reputation: 41

I had a similar problem that was kind of weird. The emulator used to work just fine but then I went to a cafe and connected to their wifi then the emulator wifi stopped working. I wiped the data made cold boot from the AVD manager then everything worked without any change in settings. I guess cold boot only would have worked without wiping data so you might try that before wiping the data.

Upvotes: 1

iamnik
iamnik

Reputation: 59

I hope I save someone a lot of pain, I tried everything everyone said on here, changed the DNS of every network adapter, reinstalled everything, the SDK, the emulator, even android studio, nothing worked, if you find yourself in the same position check if you VMware installed, if you do, don't bother with the DNS just go into Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center->Change Adapter Settings, and disable any and all VMware Network Adapters, then Cold Boot, fixes the issue instantly, you can even enable them later, and it still works

Upvotes: 5

eeqk
eeqk

Reputation: 3862

I had the same issue - in the emulator I was connected to the wifi/lte but I couldn't access any website.

The solution for me was to fix the IP of my home DNS server:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
search home
nameserver 192.168.1.1 #was 192.168.0.1 - it used to work when I was connected to a different router
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1

you don't really need to use google dns

Upvotes: 2

Adomas
Adomas

Reputation: 496

If you have any VPN connected - try disconnecting it.

For me it was VPN through Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client. Once I've closed the Cisco client (which terminates the VPN connection), WiFi on Android emulator started working.

Upvotes: 6

Vincent Sit
Vincent Sit

Reputation: 2352

On macOS:

  1. Open Network in System Preferences.
  2. Select your current network from left side then click Advanced....
  3. Change Configure IPv6(under TCP/IP tab) from Automatically to Link-local only.
  4. Restart your emulator.

Upvotes: 30

Demetrios Christopher
Demetrios Christopher

Reputation: 405

On Mac OSX (Catalina for me), the problem is caused by the fact that the emulator automatically picks up the nameserver by looking at /etc/resolv.conf and picking the first one, in my case an IPv6 address. Source: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-networking#dns

Simply edit the file (sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf) and move the IPv4 address (192.168.1.1 in my case) to be first, before the IPv6 addresses. Seriously, that was it.

Upvotes: 14

Juangui Jordán
Juangui Jordán

Reputation: 6587

My solution using Mac OSX 10.13

I read about it being caused by LAN card and WiFi being enabled, and some approaches seemed complicated to me, so I simply tried this, and it worked:

  • Disabled WiFi on my laptop.
  • Switched off the emulator.
  • Did a cold boot on the emulator (AVD Manager -> on emulator actions -> Cold Boot Now).
  • After reboot with laptop WiFi disabled the emulator showed proper WiFi connection (emulator still shows AndroidWifi but is connected to my laptop internet. WiFi symbol now look like this: WiFi symbol connected)
  • I then enabled WiFi on my laptop and everything worked.

Upvotes: 218

Shehzad Osama
Shehzad Osama

Reputation: 1302

Solution for Windows:

  1. Go to your Android SDK Location, E.g.: C:\Users\shehzad\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator.
  2. Open Command Prompt on same location. Write this command: emulator -avd Nexus_4_API_29 -gpu host -dns-server 8.8.8.8. Here Nexus_4_API_29 will be your emulator device name (You can find it out devices list from Android Studio -> AVD Manager). This command will run your specified device and WIFI will have Internet connected.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 22

Vinayakkumar
Vinayakkumar

Reputation: 6480

100% Working on Windows 10

Android AVD come with Google DSN configured inside emulators. So we need to set same to network sharing for accessing same.

Google Public DNS IP addresses The Google Public DNS IP addresses (IPv4) are as follows:

8.8.8.8

8.8.4.4

The Google Public DNS IPv6 addresses are as follows:

2001:4860:4860::8888 2001:4860:4860::8844 You can use either address as your primary or secondary DNS server.

More Info

Here I show for setting v4 IP steps

  1. Open Network and Sharing Center
  2. Right Click on current internet connection
  3. Select Properties
  4. Double Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
  5. Select Use the following DNS server address
  6. Set the Preferred and Alternate DNS server
  7. Prefered DNS Server : 8.8.8.8
  8. Alternate DNS Server : 8.8.4.4
  9. Click on OK
  10. Restart Android AVD

Note : If VPN is enabled then it will not work need to disconnect your VPN

More info on Google DSN

Upvotes: 9

Raman Sahasi
Raman Sahasi

Reputation: 31841

Stated below are the solutions for Windows and Mac, but similar solutions will work on any OS:

  1. On Windows

    • Open Network and Sharing Center and click on current Connection
    • Click on Properties
    • Double Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)

    • Set the Preferred and Alternate DNS servers as (Screenshot below) : 

      8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

  2. On Mac

    • Go to Settings > Network > Advanced... > DNS

    • Delete whatever entries you have there and add these two entries (Screenshot below):

      8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

      Note: For Mac users, if the entries field is disabled and you're not able to edit it, click on the 'Lock' icon in the bottom area of that window and enter the password to be able to make changes

Restart the emulator, and it should solve:

Screenshots:

  1. Windows

Android emulator not connecting to internet solution on windows

  1. Mac

Android emulator not connecting to internet solution on a mac

Edit: This is the fix for a situation when the emulator's wifi has changed the DNS to some non-working DNS. While this works most of the time, there might also be other reasons which may not fix from this solution.

Upvotes: 334

Shesha Vishnu Prasad
Shesha Vishnu Prasad

Reputation: 61

Maybe this would help someone. I tried all the solutions above. Changing DNS, cold booting, etc. After several hours of trial and error, I went to the official docs, which said that the emulator picks up the DNS config. of host machine at emulator's boot time. I had VMWare installed on my machine, which installs a few network adapters. So, I just changed the DNS config. of all the adapters (including VMWare adapters), and cold booted my emulator. OMG, the problem which didn't seem to go away for hours, just got right!

Now, what I find odd is, I switched back the DNS config. of all the adapters to auto, and cold booted my emulator again. The WiFi still works just fine. OS: Windows 10.

Upvotes: 6

Praneeth
Praneeth

Reputation: 637

I was having the same issue and following the below steps resolved it.

Steps:

  1. Go to Emulator Settings
  2. Select Proxy Tab
  3. Then check the "Use Android Studio HTTP proxy settings" option
  4. Click Apply

Upvotes: 14

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