Android Apps Security: Mitigate Hacking Attacks and Security Breaches

© Sheran Gunasekera 2020

S. GunasekeraAndroid Apps Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1682-8_3

3. App Licensing and SafetyNet

Sheran Gunasekera¹ 

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Singapore, Singapore

 

In this chapter, I want to look at how you can understand the integrity of your app and the integrity of the device that your app runs on. Let’s take those two topics and drill down a bit further.

On the app side, when you write and publish an app, you want to ensure that the app that is running on the end user’s device is indeed your app. In cases of commercial apps or apps that have a commercial component to it within the app, for example, buying additional features, you will want to make sure that the code being run and the back end that it is talking to know that it was ...