Newbe Dev Stack

Answer : Using chrome://inspect/#devices, if the device is detected, but tabs open in chrome on the device are not listed, look for the "activate USB debugging" option in the chrome settings-->developer options tab on the device. This is in addition to the USB debugging option you've already checked in the Android developer settings. Ok you must use chrome mobile in order to debug any webviews or browser tabs. No other browser works. I was unaware of this. //Edit As of Android version 4.4 or later this is no longer the case. Android 4.4 has support for debugging internal Webviews. Please see https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging#debugging-webviews After connecting your device, make sure you open Chrome browser on the device and after that refresh the Chrome window on your PC. This will display the entry of the opened Chrome browser on the device. It will not launch if you don't first open Chrome browser on your phone

Answer : Localhost is just a name given for the loopback, eg its like referring to yourself as "me" .. To view it from other computers, chances are you need only do http://192.168.1.56 or http://myPcsName if that doesnt work, there is a chance that there is a firewall running on your computer, or the httpd.conf is only listening on 127.0.0.1 Thanks for a detailed explanation. Just to Elaborate, in Windows, Go to Control Panel -> Firewall, in exceptions "add http and port 80". Then in Services check mark "http (web server port 80)" and "https (web server port 443)" ONLY if you need https to work also. Ok, OK, Close Then go to any computer on network and type http://computer-name (where you change the firewall and has the xampp running on it) in your web browser and happy days :) it's very easy Go to Your XAMPP Control panel Click on apache > config > Apache (httpd.conf) Search for Listen 80 and replace with Listen 8...