I would like to show you the way I access IISExpress Web APIs from my Android Emulator. I'm using Visual Studio 2015. And I call the Android Emulator from Android Studio.

*Requirement: you must run Visual Studio as Administrator. This post gives a perfect way to do this *

From a browser on my PC

From my Android Emulator:

Adding more configuration to App_Start/WebApiConfig to get Json format

Edit the file "applicationhost.config" in your solution folder

You can find it in the folder [yourSolutionFolder]/.vs/config. Beware the folder .vs is hidden.

Check your IP Address

And use this IP address to access your API from IIS Express. (See the result above)

• The port on stackoverflow about forcing Visual Studio to always run as an Administrator
• The post about IIS Express external request