Android emulator: How to monitor network traffic?

Question

How do I monitor network traffic sent and received from my android emulator?

Answer 1

You can monitor network traffic from Android Studio. Go to Android Monitor and open Network tab.

http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/ddms.html

UPDATE: ⚠️ Android Device Monitor was deprecated in Android Studio 3.1. See more in https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/monitor

Answer 2

It is also possible to use http proxy to monitor http requests from emulator. You can pass -http-proxy flag when starting a new emulator to set proxy (Example burp) to monitor Android traffic. Example usage ./emulator -http-proxy localhost:8080 -avd android2.2. Note that in my example I'm using Burp, and it is listening port 8080. More info can be found here.

Answer 3

For OS X you can use Charles, it's simple and easy to use.

For more information, please have a look at Android Emulator and Charles Proxy blog post.

Answer 4

You can start the emulator with the command -avd Adfmf -http-proxy http://SYSTEM_IP:PORT. I used HTTP Analyzer, but it should work for anything else. More details can be found here: http://stick2code.blogspot.in/2014/04/intercept-http-requests-sent-from-app.html

Answer 5

You can use http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/install.html

Its easy to setup and won't require any extra tweaks.

I go through various tool but found it to be really good and easy.

Answer 6

There are two ways to capture network traffic directly from an Android emulator:

1. Copy and run an ARM-compatible tcpdump binary on the emulator, writing output to the SD card, perhaps (e.g. tcpdump -s0 -w /sdcard/emulator.cap).

2. Run emulator -tcpdump emulator.cap -avd my_avd to write all the emulator's traffic to a local file on your PC

In both cases you can then analyse the pcap file with tcpdump or Wireshark as normal.