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Android Application Security Essentials

You're reading from   Android Application Security Essentials Security has been a bit of a hot topic with Android so this guide is a timely way to ensure your apps are safe. Includes everything from Android security architecture to safeguarding mobile payments.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515603
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Android Security Model – the Big Picture FREE CHAPTER 2. Application Building Blocks 3. Permissions 4. Defining the Application's Policy File 5. Respect Your Users 6. Your Tools – Crypto APIs 7. Securing Application Data 8. Android in the Enterprise 9. Testing for Security 10. Looking into the Future Index

Summary

Android is a modern operating system where security is built in the platform. As we learned in this chapter, the Linux kernel, with its process isolation, provides the basis of Android's security model. Each application, along with its application data, is isolated from other processes. At the application level, components talk to each other using Intents and need to have appropriate privileges to call other components. These permissions are enforced in the Linux kernel that has stood the test of time as a secure multiuser operating system. Developers have a comprehensive set of crypto APIs that secure user data.

With this basic knowledge of the Android platform, let's march to the next chapter and understand application components and inter-component communication from a security standpoint. Good luck!

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Android Application Security Essentials
Published in: Aug 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849515603
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