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Android Security Cookbook
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Android Security Cookbook

by Keith Makan
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Launching activities

Activities are the application components that facilitate user interaction. It may be useful during an application security assessment to find out which applications can be launched without permissions in case any of them provide access to sensitive data or cause an application to crash if launched in the wrong context. Besides the obvious benefit of engaging with activities via the drozer console, it makes for a good responsive introduction to engage with application components because you can actually see your Android device respond to your commands from the terminal. So, without further ado, let's get cracking with some activities!

How to do it...

You will need to choose an activity to launch, but seeing that you cannot inherently ...

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