Tcpdump Android Builds

Precompiled Tcpdump binaries for Android are provided for ARM, ARM64, X86, X86-64. Download from releases.

Tcpdump version: 4.9.2
Libpcap version: 1.9.0
Android API: 23
NDK: android-ndk-r18b

Compilation Steps

1. Download the Android NDK from https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads/. The latest available at the time of writing is ndk-r18b. Extract the zip to a suitable location.

   $ wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r18b-linux-x86_64.zip
   

2. Clone the repository

   $ git clone https://github.com/extremecoders-re/tcpdump-android-builds.git
   $ cd tcpdump-android-builds
   

3. For compiling, set NDK to the location of the android sdk directory and run the corresponding build script.

   $ NDK=/home/ubuntu/workspace/android-ndk-r18b/ ./build_x86.sh
   $ NDK=/home/ubuntu/workspace/android-ndk-r18b/ ./build_x86_64.sh
   $ NDK=/home/ubuntu/workspace/android-ndk-r18b/ ./build_arm.sh
   $ NDK=/home/ubuntu/workspace/android-ndk-r18b/ ./build_arm64.sh
   

4. Compiled binaries will be located in the corresponding tcpdumpbuild directory.

How to use tcpdump?

• https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html
• https://www.andreafortuna.org/technology/android/how-to-install-and-run-tcpdump-on-android-devices/

References

• https://github.com/eakteam/tcpdump-android
• https://github.com/chatch/tcpdump-android
• https://github.com/imrivera/build-android-tcpdump
• https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/standalone_toolchain