Android Application Developer—Can Create A Secure Application Part 1
When Android Application Developers are working on a big project they are more conscious about the security problem and they become more worried when app is for e-commerce purpose or need any kind of money transaction. Latest Android OS has many in-built security features which can significantly reduce chances of security problems. In Android Android application developers can build apps with default system and file permissions as well as can avoid difficult decisions regarding to security. Core security features enable Android application developers to build secure applications includes: -> Sandbox: That isolates your app data and code execution from other apps reside in same device. -> Framework: This provides robust implementations of many security functionality like cryptography, secure IPC and permissions -> Technologies:In order to mitigate risk associated with memory management errors many technologies are out in the market like ASLR, ProPolice, NX, safe_min_addr, OpenBSD dlmlloc and OpenBDS calloc -> Filesystem: An encrypted filesystem enable to protect data or cover from lost or stolen devices. -> Permissions: In order to restrict access to system features and user data there are user garnet permissions. Well defined permissions can control application data on a per-app basis. If you apply Android security best practices as given below you can reduce security issues greatly. Storing Data When you save any data in your Android application you need to follow three fundamental ways so your saved data can be available to other apps on the device. These three ways are: Internal storage When you save data in default way it creates internal storage where data can be accessible only in your app and this is sufficient protection for most of the apps. If data is sensitive you can encrypt local files using a key which is not accessible directly in the application.
