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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By : Vijay Kumar Velu
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By: Vijay Kumar Velu

Overview of this book

Mobile security has come a long way over the last few years. It has transitioned from "should it be done?" to "it must be done!"Alongside the growing number of devises and applications, there is also a growth in the volume of Personally identifiable information (PII), Financial Data, and much more. This data needs to be secured. This is why Pen-testing is so important to modern application developers. You need to know how to secure user data, and find vulnerabilities and loopholes in your application that might lead to security breaches. This book gives you the necessary skills to security test your mobile applications as a beginner, developer, or security practitioner. You'll start by discovering the internal components of an Android and an iOS application. Moving ahead, you'll understand the inter-process working of these applications. Then you'll set up a test environment for this application using various tools to identify the loopholes and vulnerabilities in the structure of the applications. Finally, after collecting all information about these security loop holes, we'll start securing our applications from these threats.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Android Studio and SDK


On May 16, 2013, at a Google I/O conference, an integrated development environment (IDE) was released by Katherine Chou under the Apache license 2.0 and was called Android Studio for developing apps on the Android platform. It entered the beta stage in 2014, and its first stable release was on December 2014, starting with version 1.0. It was announced as an official IDE on September 15, 2015. For more information on Android Studio and SDK, refer to http://developer.android.com/tools/studio/index.html#build-system.

Android Studio and SDK heavily depend on the Java SE Development Kit.

Note

Java SE Development Kit can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html.

Some of the developers prefer different IDEs, such as Eclipse and so on. For them, Google offers SDK-only downloads at http://dl.google.com/android/installer_r24.4.1-windows.exe.

There are some minimum system requirements that need to be fulfilled in order...