Some Best Practices for Mobile Application Development Part 2
Since we are looking forward that our mobile applications should be as safe as the web applications, we must follow some security tips strictly and determine the security risks through good practices in coding or mobile app programming. As we are accessing web through internet connections on mobile we have same threats persist as on the web with wire connections on the desktops. The reasons are obvious as we are using same browsers on the mobile devices as we use to have on the desktop so executing malicious code through browser is as easy as for the desktops.
In order to prevent our personal data on the mobile like our personal and financial information, our location and our contacts we have to use only trusted route of data exchanges through web. We generally use a common technique to transfer data to a client from the server and that is use of JSON and followed by JavaScript with eval () function to parse that data during our mobile application programming. With this technique, we execute data transfer rapidly than other alternative methods and scripting.
Unfortunately, in this technique we directly execute data feed that contains user generated data in case of dynamic application or website and this the prominent mistake that can costs us dearly in future. Therefore, it is essential for us to escape the user generated data anyhow during the data feed or database transfer on the mobile client during our mobile application development project. There are many ways to mitigate this risk and the best method is to use JSON parser or JSON PARSE where you need not to have eval () function for data parsing. If this is not possible by any means then you must escape the user-generated data during data transfer and data parsing through legitimate ways.
Conclusion
Mobile applications are insecure as our web applications on the desktops so we have to take care of many things while we use web for data transfer or obtaining some data from the open web. Use of JSON parser is safer than the JavaScript functions.















