title: CouchDB Replication to and from Android
body: <p>I'm new to Android and CouchDB and have a few questions.</p>
  
  <p>Is it actually possible to replicate the contents of a Windows CouchDB database to Android without developing some sort of app?</p>
  
  <p>CouchApp is installed on my Motorola Defy and it says CouchDB is running on <a href="http://ip:port/">http://ip:port/</a>.
  With the build in browser I cannot verify that information, because the URL cannot be opend (neither from the phone nor from my pc), but <a href="http://localhost:port/" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:port/</a> works fine.</p>
  
  <p>I tried setting <code>bind_address</code> in <code>/sdcard/Android/data/com.aranomurl.couchapp/couchdb/etc/couchdb/local.ini</code> to <code>0.0.0.0</code> and to the actual IP, but neither one changes anything.</p>
  
  <p>Using the futon replicator I get the error message "Replication failed: could not open <a href="http://ip:port/">http://ip:port/</a>".</p>
  
  <p>As a correlating question, I wonder how continous replication is supposed to work for mobile devices, since IP address and port seem to change very frequently.</p>
  
  <p>(edited once to clarify that mobile futon's URL is not working)</p>