Often I need to reverse engineer how an Android app loads its data. If I can determine the relevant server endpoints then I can call them directly in future via a script and bypass the app. This process is more complex when the app uses HTTPS for network communication, which is becoming more common now that Let’s Encrypt provides SSL certificates for free.
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How to intercept secure network traffic from Android
Android Mobile apps May 15, 2018
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How to automate Android apps with Python
Android Mobile apps Python December 01, 2017
In a previous post I covered a way to monitor network activity in order to scrape the data from an Android application. Sometimes this appraoch will not work, for example if the data of interest is embedded within the app or perhaps the network traffic is encrypted. For these cases I use UIautomator, which is a Python wrapper to the Android testing framework.
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How to scrape Android apps
Android Mobile apps Google July 13, 2015
Google recently released the Arc Welder extension for Chrome, which allows an Android app to be run on the desktop. The aim of Arc Welder is to help make testing Android apps easier, but conveniently it also makes scraping Android apps easier too.