Application Security for the Android Platform

Preface

The purpose of this book is to convey vital knowledge about application security to developers working on the Android platform, to enable the development of robust, rugged, and more secure applications.

While application security knowledge and skills have matured rapidly over the past couple of years, that knowledge is still scattered in a huge number of diverse locations. As of now, no single resource has existed that a developer with some experience in developing Android applications could turn to in order to understand the more important topics within the application security space and to find guidance on how to make their applications more secure. If you are such a developer, you’ll find the key points of application security that you need to know to develop secure applications laid out in a succinct and actionable manner. If you are an experienced security engineer or practitioner, you’ll find a summary of the unique characteristics of Android that you need to know to work within this environment. In short, this book enables the development of secure applications for the Android platform, whatever your background.

Organization of the Book

Although the chapters cover different topics, they have been arranged so that the concepts and techniques in earlier chapters form a foundation for the others.

Chapter 1, Introduction

Lays out the importance of this topic, and perhaps scares you a bit, so as to motivate you to read the book.

Chapter 2, Android Architecture

Describes the way ...