diff --git a/tests/react-test-app/run-android.sh b/tests/react-test-app/run-android.sh
index 882d966d..681f3247 100755
--- a/tests/react-test-app/run-android.sh
+++ b/tests/react-test-app/run-android.sh
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
 rm -rf node_modules/realm node_modules/realm-tests
 npm install realm realm-tests
 cp ../../src/object-store/parser/queryTests.json node_modules/realm-tests/query-tests.json
+adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081
 adb forward tcp:8082 tcp:8082
 react-native run-android