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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

Introduction to Android apps


Android apps are broadly divided into three types based on how they are developed:

  • Web-based apps

  • Native apps

  • Hybrid apps

Web Based apps

A mobile web app, is exactly what it says it is, an app developed with web technologies like JavaScript or HTML5 to provide interaction, navigation, or customization capabilities. They run within a mobile device's web browser and are rendered by requesting web pages from the backend server. It is not uncommon to see the same application used as a usual browser rendered application and as an app, as it provides benefits of not duplicating the development efforts.

Native apps

Unlike web-based apps, Native mobile apps provide fast performance and a high degree of reliability. They provide fast response time as the entire application is not fetched from the server and it can leverage the fastness of the native support provided by Android. In addition, users can use some apps without an Internet connection. However, apps developed using...