It's ok to have high minSdkVersion if it is necessary, but I believe there is no such necessity so far.

Tested on Android 4.2.2 (API 17) and on Android 4.4.4 (API 19).

When NetMonitor 1.1.1 (from f-droid) is running and i use the "pull down menu", then crash the system-ui. And in few connections the certificate is displayed. The most connections displays: "PENDING" in version 1.1.1 I downgraded to version 1.0 and it works perfectly!

As shown into he screenshot some app icons are presented too large. This is happening consistently with the F-droid app "Simple Bitcoin Widget". Probably something on their side but forcing the icon width and height may still be a good idea to avoid this from other apps.

(possibly related to #57 ) Using Net Monitor 2.0 on Android 4.2.1 with Google Nexus phone. The first time startup crashes after the first couple of startup information screens. Further attempts to start the app crash immediately. If the app data is cleared then the first couple of screens will display again before the crash. The message is "Unfortunately, Net Monitor has stopped." In developer mode I get no additional messages.

This is a very old version of Android, many apps on F-droid indicate "Incompatible". Perhaps that is the fix, but hopefully not. On other phones I am using Net Monitor 2.0 and it works fine on Android 9 with Google Pixel 2 and on Android 6.0.1 with Axon A1R. I have not had the problem mentioned in #38 on Android 6.0. (Thanks for this great app.)

Latest version on f-droid won't even start up. Running android 4.4.4 on at zte n817. Not much I can do for debug as virgin mobile has this thing locked down tight so I can't access logs. Not sure adb will do the job either, my data cable needs replacing.

Both new 2.0 and old 1.2 version doesnt show any connections under LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1) with DNS66 enabled. Even if i "allow" the App in DNS66.

Netmonitor works for a few seconds and then I receive the message that Netmonitor was stopped. The message keeps popping up until I stop the service under settings/applications. Galaxy S7 Edge with Android 6.0.1

I tried the current version in F-Droid (1.0) with K9-Mail 5.203 using a imap connection with starttls (checked on the other side). Netmonitor displays it as imap and unencrypted.

I would like to ask what thought you gave in writing this app to the possibility that some processes might be making network connections in a way which is deliberately hidden from the operating system and hence from this monitor? Is this something that is possible in Android. My reason for installing this app was to try to answer a nagging feeling that my Android phone was being used to spy on me. Having identified all the open connections I feel a bit safer in this respect, but I am wondering whether a real piece of spyware would be able to hide its activities from an app like this?

Thanks for your efforts in writing these privacy friendly apps by the way. Digital rights is an important issue and I am glad there are people like you willing to do this work.

Hi @SecUSo

I found this app on the Google Play Store. This guy just took your source code, added some ads in it and put it on the Store, without warning this is free software...

As you are the owner of the source code, feel free to open a request to google here to remove the false app from the Store, if it's your wish ;)

Don't forget to tell Google that:

• The app is licensed under GNU GPL v3 license and this guy is violating it;
• He is falsely claiming he made the app.

Why does your app DRM the screenshots?

I get the "can't take screenshot due to limited space, or it isn't empowered by the app or the organisation"

I can take a screenshot of my home launcher. So it's not a space problem (5gb free).

to increase convenience, I ask you to hide applications in the traffic history if there is no traffic for them, so it is easier to analyze.

if you can't hide it completely, then I ask you to sort the applications into two types at the top of the application where there is traffic, then a separator and at the bottom of the rest of the applications where they are shown without traffic. for a better perception, you can make applications without traffic more darkened.

After updating the app to version 2.1, I have seen that on my old device with Lollipop, the font looks very big. I have tried changing the system font size setting but it remains the same.

Hi, I'm Emanuele Iannone, a master student at University of Salerno. Since my bachelor's thesis I have been working on a code smell refactoring plugin called aDoctor, which is able to identify and fix energy-related problems in Android apps. I launched it on your project, finding different instances of code smells. I chose one of them and let the plugin automatically fix it. In this case I chose Member Ignoring Method, that is present when a non static method does not use at all instance variables and other non static methods. These kind of smell may have a non trivial impact on energy consumption, as shown in this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584918301678. Besides, this kind of refactoring does not impact on the functionalities of your app, so it is totally safe. Let me know if you are interested in this refactoring proposal.

Hi, i have noticed that a number of connections typically up to ten continue to be linked to apps even when they have been disabled/uninstalled. And these connections show a pattern chiefly being to AWS servers and the odd one or two to google. It seems likely that something is wrong here. It's important to be sure about the data if you are to decide on uninstalling an app.

Not sure if this the the right place to ask since secuso are continuing work on this project. I failed to find in a brief search anywhere to post over there. And thanks for your work, not easy to get this info on an unrooted device.

I have just been using your network monitor app to look at the network connections from my Android phone and get an idea of what is going on at that level. I found it useful, but had a couple of ideas for new features.

One is to add whois lookup for the IP addresses and domain names reported by the app, so that people don't need to use an external program to do this. (Not hard to do but it would save users the trouble).

The other is that it would be useful to get an idea of how much network bandwidth is being used by each connection and each app, over the time the monitor has been running. This would give people an idea of what kind of traffic could possibly be being transferred over each connection (e.g. text versus voice versus video etc.).