Bulletproof Android™: Practical Advice for Building Secure Apps

5. Android Databases

In Android development, when we say “databases” we primarily mean SQLite and all of its variants. These are typically small databases used to store or cache user information locally on the device. It would be fair to say that databases and shared preferences contain the bulk of an application’s dynamic data that is stored on a phone. In this chapter we’re going to look at how developers have used SQLite and, more importantly, how they have tried to secure that data in progressively more secure ways so you don’t make the same mistakes.