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VIBE HACKING: PROXYING FLUTTER TRAFFIC ON ANDROID WITH CLAUDE

randywestergren.com6 min read

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Cronometer's Android app uses Flutter's own TLS stack, which ignores system proxies and bakes certificate pinning into libflutter.so, making traditional MITM approaches fail. By combining Frida on a rooted Pixel with custom hooks, it becomes possible to detect and patch Flutter's TLS verification, observe DNS lookups and socket connections, and then transparently redirect selected hosts through a proxy like mitmproxy. Injecting an HTTP CONNECT tunnel at the syscall level lets HTTPS traffic flow through the proxy without modifying the APK.