Postman Android/iOS App

[sanchitgarg2]

I use postman to trigger control APIs and it is such a pain to have to open my laptop every time I have to do this. Sometimes I am in situations where I can't open it.
I would love to be able to use postman on Android , even if it is without all the advanced features that the desktop version has to offer. It would also be amazing if I could share my collections with my phone.

[preethammavin]

@sanchitgarg2 do try the postman dashboard, it enables most of the things other than sending a request.
I do a workaround for now which is usually trigger a manual monitor run when I want to send a request when I am not on my laptop. While this is not ideal :) . Keeping this a feedback and registering it as a feature request so that we have the information necessary to plan our long term roadmap

[sanchitgarg2]

I was actually imagining using postman as a layer over the DB. It is increasingly popular to create simple APIs for most commonly used DB functions. I cannot ease DB access to ever allow accessing it directly on a mobile phone. If I had a suite that I maintain and share with my team who uses it to perform actions such as updating certain fields, it would erase to a large extent making and maintaining an interface for internal executives. Plus with the flexibility of postman, I'm sure other developers will find many more ways of using this to reduce dev effort and deployment times. It would also save time since developers can, on the go control the system which will eventually lead to reduced support costs.

There are already apps out there that try to do this and in their features list the ability to import Postman collections directly. But they can nowhere match a product by Postman, nor can they exploit the advantages of sharing a collection with your team.

(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sn.restandroid) is an app with 50K+ downloads that kinda is a solution but looks to be specialized for users to send FCM notifications. I made an API for this customised for my use case with access-control and audience selection, but then again I can't access it when I can't open my laptop.

[sanchitgarg2]

If not for enterprises, this would be a great tool to build deep integrations(Not to mention the added value to a customer of buying a shared collection) of postman into startups who may end up being very large users later on.

[tele-bird]

The rationale for having a postman mobile app for iOS/Android goes much farther than merely for convenience! Mobile devices account for more global internet traffic than desktop, and mobile app developers need to test API's on the devices where mobile apps run!

There are differences between mobile platforms, and so APIs need to be unit tested.

When a mobile app has trouble with one particular endpoint, it would be great to be able to try it again, and troubleshoot it on the target device, and not on a PC/Mac.

The mobile app would not require the full request authoring ability of the desktop application -- instead it would only need to execute the HTTP requests that are already stored in postman's cloud, and then display the HTTP response. Any modifications to requests could be done via the desktop app, and then saved to the postman cloud, where mobile clients could access them again for re-execution.

[memotho]

Please note that text fields are not editable in Postman when accessed via Samsung Internet Browser on Android devices (tested on Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0, and Samsung Galaxy A52).

Mobile app would be great.

I would like to update this issue.