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How to work with Charles proxy server

In this post, I am going to share a technique which will help you in debugging your mobile application code effortlessly even if your server is down. To set up the Charles server, follow the below steps:            ·     Install the free Charles software from  https://www.charlesproxy.com/download/ ·    Open Charles, go to Tools -> Map local ·    In map local window/popup, click add. Add the relevant details like Host, Port(8080), Path, Query of URL. ·    Under "map to" option:- Select the local JSON file ·    Click done and a popup will look like this: (location will have the URL string, the local path will have the path of JSON file) ·    Now go to Tools - Rewrite ·    In the rewrite popup, Select the "Enable rewrite option" and add the previous URL here ·    Add the following rewrite rule ·    Click ok and apply all the settings. ·    Now run the application in simulator and API's response will be read f