Fiddler is a popular web traffic debugging tool which lets you inspect web requests.  This ability is very helpful when developing applications which consume web services.  I’ve been working with a team on an Android application and I needed to use Fiddler with Android.  In this post, I’m going to show you how to setup Fiddler to inspect web traffic from an Android device running Ice Cream Sandwich.

I ran into an issue yesterday where my breakpoints in an AsyncTask doInBackground method were not being hit.  After an hour of troubleshooting, I found two situations that can cause this issue.

This last week, I ran into poor performance loading Java objects on Android using SQLiteCursors.  I needed to load a hierarchy of objects.  This hierarchy was 4 levels deep and contained around 1,000 objects.  I tried a few approaches to see what method could load these objects the fastest.