testing mobile on local network

I have run into a difficult situation.

I do not want to do my development based on an emulator, so I want to be able to have my phone (Android), to connect to my local PC to make sure what I am developing comes out the way I want it to.

Issue #1 - I need to be able to connect to my network, not internet, I can'开发者_运维百科t have my PC internet facing, this limits me from opening my PC to the internet.

Issue #2 - No WiFi allowed at my work, security issues.

Issue #3 - I can't publish this to a internet facing site, since the procedure to get it to one, take a few days each publish and will put my development to a crawl.

What I'm looking for, is a way to get my phone to connect to my local PC, maybe via USB/Bluetooth but have access to my local IIS, does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this?

Any hack you use is going to take your environment away from the "reality" you seek.

I would really encourage you to ask your employer to give you the proper means to do your duties. For instance:

• Getting you a cheap VPS on the Internet you can push updates to yourself
• Setting up an encrypted AP separated from the rest of the company network.

Those two options are extremely cheap and would let you do what you need.

Can't you just use an Android emulator?

This is a generic problem that most mobile developers face, especially when there are big server interactions and I am afraid, in this case, there are no perfect answers. There are only workarounds.

I can see that you have tried most of the workarounds. I will suggest one more.

If your plan is to test client side code / UI, then mock up your server on any cloud based server ( eg : google app engine / amazon ec2) and get you device to access server code over the cloud.

Let me know if this approach works.