We need to be aware that there are other options for sniffing the traffic from the Android device, like changing the IP tables on the phone, but they all require a rooted phone, which we don’t want. We’ll set up an access point on our laptop and connect to it via the mobile phone.
Another option is to use a system-wide proxy, so all Internet communication goes through it, but that method isn’t as reliable as the option we’ll be using. One of them is to set a specific application to use a proxy, but the application has to support that setting, and most of them don’t. There are a couple of ways to achieve that. We’re doing it because we want to sniff everything the Android device sends and receives over the network. But why would we do that? The main reason is not related to using the network over the phone (quite the contrary: the laptop should have a valid Internet connection already).
We’ll be connecting the Android device to the laptop-enabled access point. In this article we won’t talk about how to connect your laptop to the Android access point, but rather the opposite.
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