How to fix slow HTTPS traffic in Burp Suite, while inspecting mobile app traffic

Whenever I have to look into HTTPS mobile traffic through burp suite, the traffic is extremely slow and it eats a lot of my precious time. Someone already posted about the issue on the burp suite forum 2 years ago, and the admins said they'll look in to it, but it doesn't seem to be fixed as of today.

In the meantime, here's a quick fix. Just put some other proxy in front of the burp proxy, and the traffic flow is a lot smoother. The proxy could be any tool, be it Zap, fiddler, charles proxy and the like.

So it goes like this.

[ Mobile device ] -> [ ZAP ] -> [ Burp Suite ] -> [ Mobile app server on the web ]

Pretty simple huh?

Don't forget to install the foremost (ZAP in the above case) proxy certificate on the mobile device.