Configuring Your Android Device to use the Charles Proxy Use the. If you don’t have Genymotion running, you should check it out, it runs much faster than the default emulator. On a Mac, you can hold down the Option key while clicking on the network icon in the.

Ip: 10.0.3.2 (this is a special ip that Genymotion uses to connect back to the host).

Now enter the proxy settings provided by your network administrator.

Select Manual for Proxy settings menu entry Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a.

Press and hold for 2 seconds WiredSSID network in the list.

In Wireless & Networks section, select Wi-Fi.

The Genymotion emulator has a different method of modifying the proxy setting: Here’s what the HTTP JSON response looks like in the proxy: So for that reason, if the server is running on the workstation, you would want to use 127.0.0.1 as the IP.Īs long as the server is reachable from your workstation, you can use that IP and it will go through the proxy. This is actually a bit counterintuitive, but the idea is that the address must be reachable from the workstation’s network, not from the emulator’s network. Configure your app to connect to 127.0.0.1:4984 Run an HTTP server on your workstation, on port 4984Īctually use any port you want, but in my case I’m connecting to a server that runs on port 4984. Essentially once you get to this screen, just update the ip to have the special 10.0.2.2 ip address which represents your workstation, and the port the proxy is listening on (port 8888). There is a blog that describes how to get to this screen, I don’t have the link handy. Configure the Android Emulator to use that proxy If you need HTTPS, you might have to configure that, I don’t remember if it’s enabled by default. It should be listening on port 8888 and proxying everything. I’m using Charles Proxy and highly recommend it.Īs far as proxy configuration, the defaults should be fine.

Here’s the overall diagram of what’s happening: By default, the Record button is already on, and you’re set to go. If that’s not needed, turn off Mac OS X Proxy in the Proxy menu. By default, it will change Mac network settings to proxy all your Mac use for you. If you need to debug the HTTP communication between a server and an Android app running in an emulator or device, here’s some instructions on how I went about doing it. Just launch the Charles app and there’s not much to prepare.

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