Learning Android Forensics

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Until Android 4.4, all apps present under /system were treated equally."

A block of code is set as follows:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.example.rohit">

  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

</manifest>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

shell@android:/ $ cat default.prop
cat default.prop
#
# ADDITIONAL_DEFAULT_PROPERTIES ...