Orbot

Orbot is a free VPN and proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Orbot is a crucial component of the Guardian Project, an initiative that leads an effort to develop a secure and anonymous smartphone. This platform is designed for use by human rights activists, journalists and others around the world. Learn more: Tor protects your privacy on the internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. We believe that Tor is reasonably secure, but please ensure you read the usage instructions and learn to configure it properly. Learn more: Orbot is built with hev-socks5-tunnel. Before you can build Orbot, you'll need to clone the submodule for this dependency. Once cloned, Android Studio + Gradle will take care of building the C code. If, sometime later, you pull new commits to Orbot an and see that there are changes to app/src/main/jni/hev-socks5-tunnel that means that the hev-socks5-tunnel version we use in Orbot has been updated. You will have to update to the new version of hev-socks5-tunnel by running: Recently tor was added to be its own Linux process on Android instead of having it run within the primary app process. That means that you will no longer see logs from tor , OrbotService , OrbotVPNManager , etc. within Android Studio. In order to see these logs you can use: adb logcat --pid=$(adb shell pidof -s "org.torproject.android.debug") -v color to see the app logs in your terminal adb logcat --pid=$(adb shell pidof -s "org.torproject.android.debug:tor") -v color and to see the tor process logs. There is a helper script to get both of these logs printed side-by-side with tmux . From the root directory run: