Use proxy in Visual Studio Emulator for Android

Question

Here is a link to the emulator announcement (included with Visual Studio 15 CTP): https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/msft-android-emulator-vs.aspx

I would like to set up a proxy for the Internet connection in this VM. My purpose is to connect through port 8888 on my host machine so that I could see this Android VM's traffic in my Fiddler.

Is this possible? The android settings in the VM itself do not contain any mobile network access points and therefore I can't figure out how to set up a proxy.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

We've made this work as of Visual Studio 2015 RC. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/05/06/using-fiddler-to-monitor-network-traffic-from-the-vs-emulator-for-android.aspx for the full instructions.

Answer 2

Once you have launched the emulator follow the steps below.

• Settings
• WI-FI
• Long tap on network you are connected to and select Modify network config
• Check the Show advanced options checkbox
• Lastly change the proxy settings

Hope this works for you.