Re: [android-developers] Developing a packet sniffer on Android

2013-04-29 Thread Isuru Madusanka
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 wrote: > Hello! > > I am trying to develop a packet sniffer for Android. From what I have > searched around the best approach s

[android-developers] Developing a packet sniffer on Android

2013-04-29 Thread Ishan Sharma
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. No