Android Emulator: How to Monitor Network Traffic

Monitor network activity in Android Phones

TCPDUMP is one of my favourite tools for analyzing network, but if you find difficult to cross-compile tcpdump for android, I'd recomend you to use some applications from the market.

These are the applications I was talking about:

  • Shark: Is small version of wireshark for Android phones). This program will create a *.pcap and you can read the file on PC with wireshark.
  • Shark Reader : This program allows you to read the *.pcap directly in your Android phone.

Shark app works with rooted devices, so if you want to install it, be sure that you have your device already rooted.

Good luck ;)

Android Studio Network Monitoring not Working

@AnyssaK was right. The Network Monitor doesn't work on emulators. Please read their comment.

Besides make sure that you selected the correct device in Android Monitor.

Android Monitor. Select the connected device you run your app on



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