Tuxpaint-Android VS PCAPdroid

PBS Kids has a lot of games and activities on their website:

https://pbskids.org/games

If your kids watch any PBS shows them they'll recognize the characters.

The activities were fun enough for our twins to learn how to use computer mice at age 3.

Tux Paint is also really fun for young kids and a good way to learn mouse usage:

https://tuxpaint.org/

Tux Paint (version 0.9.30): A drawing program for children.

I can also recommend https://tuxpaint.org/. I see they also have an app for Android nowadays, but no iOS it seems.

TuxPaint

This is going to depend on the age of the kid. I have given a cheap Laptop to my 6-year old and introduced her to Scratch[1] and Tuxpaint[2]. I let her use the mouse and keyboard more instead of tapping on a screen. The school is likely to introduce Scratch from next year. For older kids, they should be on a normal computer. My old MacBook Pro came handy for the elder one. She does the usual Python, games and stuff but she is not really interested in the computer aspect of computers.

The one thing I want to make them learn is to touch-type but it is hard to convince them to do it regularly. Some of the collections about Computer education for kids https://notes.oinam.com/education/computer/

1. https://scratch.mit.edu

2. https://tuxpaint.org

Tux Paint is available for download, free of charge, from the project's website: https://tuxpaint.org/. Tux Paint is open source software and does not contain in-app advertising.

PCAPdroid (version 1.6.9): No-root network monitor and traffic dump tool for Android devices

PCAPdroid mitm (version 16): Mitm addon for PCAPdroid

https://github.com/emanuele-f/PCAPdroid is very good, shows content too (for http)

There's also PCAPdroid [1] which you can run straight from your phone with no root. Works with https traffic too when you enable the mitm setting.

[1]: https://github.com/emanuele-f/PCAPdroid

Also whenever I mess around with http stuff I like to use tools like Fiddler Classic (PC) and PCAPdroid (Android) to know what I need to do vs. what I'm sending/requesting. With this you can perform the desired action manually while capturing all the packets of that action with headers. Then when you replicate the functionality, you capture the packets again and compare both to verify that your code behaves identically/similarly to what you manually did.

Try PCAPdroid. It'll show the app as well as the destination IP.

PCAPdroid (version 1.5.1): No-root network monitor and traffic dump tool for Android devices

I'm rather fond of PCAPdroid, just leave everything to default and start monitoring. Ideally you should only see ~100b be sent via netd and nothing else if you are not using your phone (and disabled background update checks in say NetGuard, Firefox, etc.). It takes up the VPN slot so be aware of that.

PCAPdroid should do the same thing