Android emulator: How to monitor network traffic?

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mlindeboom picture mlindeboom · Mar 16, 2010 · Viewed 115k times · Source

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

Answer

Christopher Orr picture Christopher Orr · Apr 4, 2010

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.

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