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Android Security Cookbook

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Android Security Cookbook

Overview of this book

Android Security Cookbook discusses many common vulnerabilities and security related shortcomings in Android applications and operating systems. The book breaks down and enumerates the processes used to exploit and remediate these vulnerabilities in the form of detailed recipes and walkthroughs. The book also teaches readers to use an Android Security Assessment Framework called Drozer and how to develop plugins to customize the framework. Other topics covered include how to reverse-engineer Android applications to find common vulnerabilities, and how to find common memory corruption vulnerabilities on ARM devices. In terms of application protection this book will show various hardening techniques to protect application components, the data stored, secure networking. In summary, Android Security Cookbook provides a practical analysis into many areas of Android application and operating system security and gives the reader the required skills to analyze the security of their Android devices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Android Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Copying files off/onto an AVD


In your upcoming adventures with the Android platform, you may want to at some point copy things off your Android devices, whether they are emulators or not. Copying files is pretty simple. All you need is the following:

  • A connected device you'd like to have

  • A file you'd like to copy off/on

  • A place you'd like to put this file in

How to do it...

To access files on your Android device using the ADB, you need to do the following:

  1. It's actually pretty simple to do this. You'll need to fire off the following command from your command-line interface:

    adb {options} pull [path to copy from] [local path to copy to]
    
  2. To copy files onto an AVD, you can use the following command:

    adb {options} push [local path to copy from] [path to copy to on avd]