In Web development it's well known that inside the Dev console->Network tab it's possible to read, for example, Json's traffic between the client and server.
What about similar tool for Android apps? Is something like this achievable: Connecting device on debug mode to ADB, and see the web traffic? For example to read in live how App X receiving Json from her back-end server? (And similar to Web - Read this Json...)
You can use a Debugging Proxy like Charles: http://www.charlesproxy.com/
This is in my opinion the best option for network inspection because it gives you a lot of advanced options such as:
Replaying requests
Simulating slow network speed
Setting up breakpoints where you can edit the response from the server before it hits your app
The only downside is that it can be a little tedious to set up, and you have to edit your phone/emulator Wifi settings a lot...
You can also add a debugging library to your app, like Stetho by Facebook: http://facebook.github.io/stetho/
This will let you observe the network requests made by your app in the Chrome Dev Tools amongst other thing (inspecting your layouts on screen, read/write DB and Shared Preferences access...)
try this tool called charles proxy. We use it all the time at work and works like a charm. http://www.charlesproxy.com/
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I used Charles Proxy before, which can modify the data received by a browser, so it is really convenient that we can test our bug fixes without modifying the production server, either for the webpage content or for the AJAX data.
Is it possible to do something similar for a mobile phone app, either for iPhone and Android phones? I can let the Mac (or probably a PC too) act as a Wifi station (access point) and let the mobile phone connect to it, and is there an app that can act like Charles Proxy (perhaps Fiddler?) that can examine and modify data?
#nopole If you are using Charles, I suppose you can use Breakpoint feature to intercept and edit HTTP requests/responses coming from/to your mobile devices. It works for both browsers and mobile devices. Or else you can try using Proxyman. It's a native macOS app and quite similar to Charles/ Fiddler. You can read an example of how to use the Breakpoint to manipulate data here. Hope it helps! :)
Recently I have a problem in inspecting network requests and responses happened in Android System WebView.
The problem is that our app sometimes failed to load some urls with Android System WebView, but we can not get enough information to trace these cases.
Tools like Fiddler or Charles have some limitations like I should have access to that Android device, right?
And I also tried tools like Chrome Remote Debugging, this tool was amazing to debug problems in Android System WebView, but I should have Android device and development machine connected via USB, right?
So, is there any helpful things for me to inspect network requests and responses happened in Android System WebView remotely?
Thanks all.
Use Charles Proxy for inspecting network requests, it is pretty easy to use
this article will help
https://medium.com/#hackupstate/using-charles-proxy-to-debug-android-ssl-traffic-e61fc38760f7
add ssl proxy settings for the domain you want so that you can see the responses and requests clearly with headers and value you are sending in the body or in headers
if you want only remote debugging in chrome for webview
follow this
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remote-debugging/?utm_source=dcc&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=2016q3
In my own app, I'm using various 3rd party SDKs that make network calls( HTTP requests) in some form or other. Without editing this code, can I write code separately within the application to intercept all GET and POST requests that my app is making?
I want to record these HTTP calls in my app
I am aware of using Fiddler and Charles proxy tools but that is outside the app but this won't work because I can't record these HTTP calls in my app.
Is there a way to do it?
EDIT: I am using Google Analytics SDK and Facebook SDK in my code. I want to monitor all the network calls these SDK's are making from my app
On non rooted phone you can use android OS proxy and redirect traffic. But some apps doesn't respect it. Makes direct connections. Some tweaking could be done. Use Drony with VPN mode to redirect all traffic to SandroProxy. Here is video how capture then traffic with SandroProxy SandroProxy with Chrome devtools SandroProxy can also capture pcapfiles. Can also make ssl mitm on pcap flow. from SandroProxy support
Try HTTP Toolkit - it's an open-source tool I've been building to do exactly this. It can automatically intercept traffic from an Android device, with no manual setup required, and then allows you to inspect & rewrite all HTTP traffic from your computer, like so:
To intercept HTTPS traffic from your app, you just need to either a) trust 'user' certificates in your application's network security configuration (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/38770284/68051) or b) use an emulator or rooted device (in which case HTTP Toolkit can inject a 'system' certificate, which your app will trust automatically).
Charles proxy is a good way.
Others include if app is using singleton network class (which it ideally should), make one function for get and one for post. Call these functions from your classes and use log.d to output data on console. You can track request response or time taken.
If you are specifically looking for your app to be capable of recording the HTTP calls.
Android Snooper library can be the solution you are looking for.
Have you considered Stetho?
http://facebook.github.io/stetho/
You can monitor and modify all incoming and outgoing requests, among other things.
https://github.com/jgilfelt/chuck/
it adds a new app that send notifications each time a network request is made, and you can see the details of the request.
https://github.com/facebook/stetho
it allows you to use the chrome dev tools to monitor your requests created from an android app. (among other cool features)
If you root the device or running over debug (adb), then maybe this will help:
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/analyzing-android-network-traffic--mobile-10663
Else I don't think its possible to do what you want to do. But you can monitor general network stuff like:
For all traffic stats see:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/TrafficStats.html (just pass in your apps user id)
For monitoring network status:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/ConnectivityManager.html
You Can use this as the better option. Remember to scroll down the app and check network intercept is on.
Link is here https://appetize.io/upload
I'm working on an Android app on a non-rooted phone. It uses the network to download some data from a server using HTTP. I would like to debug the stream of those information, so I installed Fiddler and followed some tutorials like:
http://docs.telerik.com/fiddler/configure-fiddler/tasks/ConfigureForAndroid
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jpsanders/archive/2013/04/03/configuring-fiddler-to-be-a-proxy-for-android-emulators.aspx
The problem is that this methods work only if the data is sent and received by the Android Browser, while apps are totally ignored. How can I proceed?
Well... I managed to see my app's traffic by using an emulator, not a real phone. The guide from MSDN (second link) is the most appropriate for this task.
For a project working I need to inspect the HTTP requests sent and received from my Android device. I'm using this tool Fiddler2 to monitor the traffic. In order to get it working I had to pass the traffic through a proxy. Now my phone is a Huawei U8180. Its runs Android 2.2 so it doesn't have a direct way to proxy settings. I used this app called Proxy Settings to gain access to set the proxy settings.
It almost works. I can see the traffic say, if I navigate to a website using the proxy web browser in that app (The app comes with a proxy browser). But not using my phone's normal browser. Neither I can see any HTTP requests sent by any of my apps installed in my device.
If anyone has any experience using Fiddler2 with Android, I'd really appreciate your input. I'm open to try any other alternatives to accomplish this if you got any.
Thanks.
Typically, Android users will use a tool like iptables to capture traffic from apps that don't support a proxy setting. This has some implications for HTTPS decryption; see the Fiddler Discussion Group (Help > Fiddler Community) for discussion of how to adjust Fiddler's HTTPS settings to accommodate iptables-redirected HTTPS connections.