Capturing packets on your mobile app

- [Instructor] While Wireshark doesn't run…on an Android phone, another nifty tool…called Packet Capture does.…This is an incredibly useful tool…for recovering network traffic…to and from an application, and determining…the strengths of network security in the application.…Packet Capture is particularly easy to use.…Like Wireshark, it will capture all network traffic…on the mobile interface.…So the first thing you need to do…is open the Packet Capture app,…and press the green run key.…Fortunately, on mobile devices,…there's much less traffic than typically exists…on a Windows system.…

You can then start the target app…and run it for as long as you want…to have traffic captured.…Then press the red stop button on Packet Capture…to stop the traffic capture.…The session will be displayed as a single capture…on the main packet capture screen…with a record of the number of packets captured.…The packets can be reviewed by double clicking…the session entry.…This will display the packet index in chronologic order,…providing a summary of the packets.…