Chapter 5. Protecting Applications
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Securing application components
- Protecting components with custom permissions
- Protecting content provider paths
- Defending against the SQL-injection attacks
- Application signature verification (anti-tamper)
- Tamper protection by detecting the installer, emulator, and debug flag
- Removing all log messages with ProGuard
- Advanced code obfuscation with DexGuard
Introduction
So far, we've seen how to set up and customize an environment to discover and take advantage of vulnerabilities in the Android apps. In this chapter, we are going to discuss several protection techniques to make it more difficult for reverse engineers and attackers.
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