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I would like an application that can be downloaded from the market and runs as a service capturing and archiving the following traffic on Android devices: Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Google Talk, MSN, AOL and Yahoo IM.

Is there a way to do this without rooting the phone or developing a custom ROM?

David Silva Smith
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Since the messages are not publicly announced by the apps themselves you would need to capture the network traffic & try to read the information out of there. But it might be impossible if the apps transfer their messages encrypted (https etc).

Packetcapture either requires root & tcpdump (or similar) on the device or Android 4+ and a VPN service like done in tPacketCapture

I don't believe that packet capture via VPN service is intended to be possible so that might be blocked again in future versions of Android.

How do I capture instant message traffic on an Android?

So basically you can't do that in a standard app unless the messenger apps provide an API to do so.

zapl
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