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OS Monitor is a tool for collecting system information on Android OS.
It offers the following information.
- Processes - monitor all processes.
- Connections - display every network connection.
- Misc - monitor processors, network interfaces and file system.
- Messages - search dmesg or logcat in real-time.
OS Monitor runs a native execute binary to collecting data that will be transferred to Android UI App via IPC, the native binary calls "OSMCore" is wrote by C++.
The latest version has been rewrote, the whole architecture is totally changed, 1.x ~ 2.x always use JNI to receive data form C library, it causes some problems that like maintenance, 3.x try to solve issues and improve performance, it bases on new mechanism which introduces on the following section.
- Communication between Android App and native process via Unix socket
- All requests or responses are serialized by Google Protocol Buffer
- Data could be reused if the request is equal in a short time
- Maximum 8 connections at same time
It bases on Unix Socket with a fixed name, if anyone knows the fixed name, he can easy hijack it with own app, a security token are used to prevent hijack, any connection need to offer a token for validating, otherwise, the connection will be disconnected.
- All data are serialized and reusable.
- Expand and Upgrade is easy now.
If you have any question, please use GitHub to issue a ticket.