Lint
Many of the current security issues can be found using Lint and looking at any warnings flagged in the security category (see Figure 9-5). In this case it shows that we haven’t set the android:allowBackup to false in the AndroidManifest.xml file.
Figure 9-5 Lint security tags
Google will continue to add Security issues to the Lint Security Category sooner or later. They are already addressing more sophisticated attacks, not just the simple mistakes such as making a file MODE_WORLD_READABLE.
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