There is a project called jpcap which use PCAP library to capture packets
by Java. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpcap/



On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Ishan Sharma <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am trying to develop a packet sniffer for Android. From what I have
> searched around the best approach seems to be porting the libpcap library
> to Android and use it with JNI. However, libpcap (or every other sniffing
> library for that matter) requires root access to sniff the packets. Now I
> know that sniffing packets is a privileged operation in Linux kernel and
> can't be bypassed.
>
> My questions are following:
> a) Is there some technique to provide temporary root access to our
> application in Android as it is possible in Linux?
>
> b) Is there some library apart from libcap which would allow me to capture
> packets without requiring root access?
>
> c) Is there some other method in Android to capture packets?
>
> Regards,
> Ishan Sharma
>
>
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