While doing mobile development there is always a need to present or capture your screen (for bug description) with an application actively running on the screen. Here are my tips and apps I use often that help me to achive that goal for both platforms. I hope you will also find them useful.
iOS While using iOS devices, both features are already build into the system.
To present mobile screen on desktop:
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one, which work like a proxy and dump the whole traffic, that we might be interested in (Fiddler would be the best example here)
others, that interact with the TCP/IP stack itself and look much deeper for sent packets (like WireShark or Microsoft Message Analyzer - unfortunately retired as of 2020-01-20).
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