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Why would I use requestly for Android when perfectly good alternatives already exist ? Flipper (https://fbflipper.com/) lets me do all of this (viewing, mocks, etc), with the same setup. And it's extensible too. HTTP Toolkit offers the proxying solution to it. Is there anything that might be different ?

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Thank you for asking this and This is a very good question. The way we are building Requestly is to be used within teams, test different case-cases, have them on cloud and use them again & again without setting up everything from scratch. Collaboration is an essential feature which is missing in this space. To give you an example - A developer working in E-Commerce domain has mocked an API to return empty slots for a cart, (s)he'd like to share it with the team so that anyone in the team can use the same configuration while making any changes in those files. Now, Think of a Repository of Rules available in your company when you have to test different scenarios. When you work on a particular component, you can just enable different configurations and test them out easily without having to know how to set those configurations up. I believe this really improves onboarding and efficiency in testing your code.

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