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Hacking Android

By : Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli
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Hacking Android

By: Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli

Overview of this book

With the mass explosion of Android mobile phones in the world, mobile devices have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Security of Android devices is a broad subject that should be part of our everyday lives to defend against ever-growing smartphone attacks. Everyone, starting with end users all the way up to developers and security professionals should care about android security. Hacking Android is a step-by-step guide that will get you started with Android security. You’ll begin your journey at the absolute basics, and then will slowly gear up to the concepts of Android rooting, application security assessments, malware, infecting APK files, and fuzzing. On this journey you’ll get to grips with various tools and techniques that can be used in your everyday pentests. You’ll gain the skills necessary to perform Android application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing and will create an Android pentesting lab.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hacking Android
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Fundamental Building Blocks of Android Apps

This chapter gives an overview of Android app internals. It is essential to understand how apps are being built under the hood, what it looks like when it is installed on the device, how they are run, and so on. We make use of this knowledge in other chapters, where we discuss topics such as reverse engineering and pentesting Android apps. This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Basics of Android apps

  • App build process

  • Understanding how Android apps run on an Android device

  • Dalvik Virtual Machine (DVM) and Android Runtime (ART)

  • Basic building blocks of Android apps