Connecting 2 emulator instances

[akkinoob]

I want to connect 2 emulator instances so that I would be able to send simple chat messages between them. For this I set up a server on one emulator and made other emulator a client. So I ran the server on emulator 5554 and the client on 5556.

My server code, listening on 6000:

 public class NewServerActivity extends Activity {
	   ServerSocket ss;
	   String mClientMsg = "";
	   Thread myCommsThread = null;
	   protected static final int MSG_ID = 0x1337;
	   public static final int SERVERPORT = 6000;

	   @Override
	   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
	      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
	      setContentView(R.layout.main);
	      TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView01);
	      tv.setText("Nothing from client yet");
	      this.myCommsThread = new Thread(new CommsThread());
	      this.myCommsThread.start();
	   }

	   

	   Handler myUpdateHandler = new Handler() {
	      public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
	         switch (msg.what) {
	         case MSG_ID:
	            TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView01);
	            tv.setText(mClientMsg);
	            break;
	         default:
	            break;
	         }
	         super.handleMessage(msg);
	      }
	   };
	   class CommsThread implements Runnable {
	      public void run() {
	         //Socket s;
	         try {
	           ss = new ServerSocket(SERVERPORT );
	         } catch (IOException e) {
	            e.printStackTrace();
	         }
	         while (!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
	            Message m = new Message();
	            m.what = MSG_ID;
	            try {
	              // if (s == null)
	            	Socket s = ss.accept();
	               BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(
	                     new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
	               String st = null;
	               st = input.readLine();
	               mClientMsg = st;
	               myUpdateHandler.sendMessage(m);
	            } catch (IOException e) {
	               e.printStackTrace();
	            }
	         }
	      }
	   }
	   @Override
	   protected void onStop() {
	      super.onStop();
	      try {
	         // make sure you close the socket upon exiting
	         ss.close();
	      } catch (IOException e) {
	         e.printStackTrace();
	      }
	   }
	   
	   
	}

I redirected the ports as :

telnet localhost 5554
redir add tcp:5000:6000

My client code establshing connection on port 5000:

public class NewClientActivity extends Activity {
	   private Button bt;
	   private TextView tv;
	   private Socket socket;
	   private String serverIpAddress = "10.0.2.2";
	   // AND THAT'S MY DEV'T MACHINE WHERE PACKETS TO
	   // PORT 5000 GET REDIRECTED TO THE SERVER EMULATOR'S
	   // PORT 6000
	   private static final int REDIRECTED_SERVERPORT = 5000;

	   @Override
	   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
	      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
	      setContentView(R.layout.main);
	      bt = (Button) findViewById(R.id.myButton);
	      tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTextView);

	      try {
	         InetAddress serverAddr = InetAddress.getByName(serverIpAddress);
	         socket = new Socket(serverAddr, REDIRECTED_SERVERPORT);
	      } catch (UnknownHostException e1) {
	         e1.printStackTrace();
	      } catch (IOException e1) {
	         e1.printStackTrace();
	      }

	      bt.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

	         public void onClick(View v) {
	            try {
	               EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.EditText01);
	               String str = et.getText().toString();
	               PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(
	                     new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream())),
	                     true);
	               out.println(str);
	               Log.d("Client", "Client sent message");

	            } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
	               tv.setText("Error1");
	               e.printStackTrace();
	            } catch (IOException e) {
	               tv.setText("Error2");
	               e.printStackTrace();
	            } catch (Exception e) {
	               tv.setText("Error3");
	               e.printStackTrace();
	            }
	         }
	      });
	   }
	}

I ran the server on emulator 5554 and the client on 5556.

My client side is working fine but unfortunately, on starting the server app the emulator shows a message Unfortunately APPLICATION was stopped. And eclipse shows a java.lang.NullPointerException at "s = ss.accept();" line. Is it somehow related to the configuration of my AVD.