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Testing and securing android studio applications

Testing and securing android studio applications

By : Cruz Zapata, Antonio Hernández Niñirola
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Testing and securing android studio applications

Testing and securing android studio applications

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By: Cruz Zapata, Antonio Hernández Niñirola
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Overview of this book

If you are a developer with some Android knowledge, but you do not know how to test your applications using Android Studio, this book will guide you. It is recommended that you are familiar with Android Studio IDE.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Introduction to Software Security
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1. Introduction to Software Security
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Software security terms
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Threats, vulnerabilities, and risks
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Secure code-design principles
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Testing the basics
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Summary
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2. Security in Android Applications
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2. Security in Android Applications
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The mobile environment
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An overview of Android security
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Permissions
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Interapplication communication
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Summary
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3. Monitoring Your Application
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3. Monitoring Your Application
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Debugging and DDMS
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Threads
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Method profiling
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Heap
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Allocation Tracker
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Network Statistics
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File Explorer
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Emulator Control
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System Information
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4. Mitigating Vulnerabilities
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4. Mitigating Vulnerabilities
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Input validation
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Permissions
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Handling a user's data and credentials
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Interapplication communication
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5. Preserving Data Privacy
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5. Preserving Data Privacy
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Data privacy
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Encryption
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Using encryption to store data
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Summary
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6. Securing Communications
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6. Securing Communications
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HTTPS
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Code examples using HTTPS
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Summary
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7. Authentication Methods
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7. Authentication Methods
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Multifactor authentication
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Login implementations
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AccountManager
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8. Testing Your Application
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8. Testing Your Application
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Testing in Android
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Testing the UI
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The UI test project
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Running UI test cases
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Summary
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9. Unit and Functional Tests
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9. Unit and Functional Tests
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Testing activities
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Creating an activity test
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Summary
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10. Supporting Tools
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10. Supporting Tools
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Tools for unit testing
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Tools for functional testing
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Other tools
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11. Further Considerations
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11. Further Considerations
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What to test
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Developer options
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Getting help
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Index
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Index

Data privacy

Data privacy is an important concern for applications because a lot of information is stored and managed in the applications: contacts, e-mails, bank accounts, messages, agenda, social networks, and so on. Some of this information can also be considered as sensitive data. Sensitive data can be any of the following types of information:

  • Information that allows you to identify a device or the user of that device such as the phone number or the International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of that device

  • Information from the resources of the device such as the GPS location of that device

  • Information created and managed by the applications

  • Users' personal data such as photos or messages

As a developer, your responsibility is to protect the privacy of the information that is stored by your application. There are different mechanisms to store your application data in Android, and each storage mechanism is meant to keep a specific kind of information. The storage mechanisms...

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