title: Use android as webserver on local network
body: <p>Ive seen some apps where you can open your computers web-browser, type in the local IP address to the android device, and access a homepage that hosts from the device.</p>
  
  <p>An example is this app: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.url.omega.fingertimerfree&amp;feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsInR3LnVybC5vbWVnYS5maW5nZXJ0aW1lcmZyZWUiXQ" rel="nofollow">Finger Timer - play.google.com</a></p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how this is done? Does Google have an API for this, or do you have any examples that I can start with? Im not a professional developer, so I prefer to keep it simple (few technologies). </p>
  
  <p>What I had in mind was something like this:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Create a HTML or PHP page on my device</li>
  <li>Feed it with some information from my app somehow</li>
  <li>Host that page, so it can be accessed from any web-browser on any device on a local network.</li>
  </ul>