Mobile apps are increasingly becoming the main way users interact with businesses — yet Android app security needs are often not considered until the end of the app development lifecycle.
Android app code hardening serves as your mobile applications’ frontline defense against reverse engineering and tampering attempts.
Android mobile app code hardening techniques will render your code illegible without affecting its functionality, ensuring that threat actors who attempt to decompile your app won’t be able to easily interpret its internal logic.
Leveraging Android developer encryption ensures mobile application code, and the data it contains, cannot be accessed while the application is at rest. Android developer encryption does not alter the functionality of the app; the code is decrypted when the application is executed, allowing the app to perform as it should.
Application developers can utilize Android app obfuscation tools to harden the app’s code at various layers.
This achieves the level of protection necessary to safeguard sensitive data and property while preventing reverse engineering in Android mobile applications.
Android runtime application self-protection (RASP) enables apps to monitor for suspicious behavior at runtime.
When a threat is detected, Android RASPimplementations respond with pre-programmed actions, like terminating the user’s session, displaying a warning message, or limiting functionality.
Android app code hardening serves as your mobile applications’ frontline defense against reverse engineering and tampering attempts.
Android mobile app code hardening techniques will render your code illegible without affecting its functionality, ensuring that threat actors who attempt to decompile your app won’t be able to easily interpret its internal logic.
This allows developers to effectively shrink apps and improve app performance.
Encryption
Leveraging Android developer encryption ensures mobile application code, and the data it contains, cannot be accessed while the application is at rest. Android developer encryption does not alter the functionality of the app; the code is decrypted when the application is executed, allowing the app to perform as it should.
Obfuscation
Application developers can utilize Android app obfuscation tools to harden the app’s code at various layers.
This achieves the level of protection necessary to safeguard sensitive data and property while preventing reverse engineering in Android mobile applications.
Android runtime application self-protection (RASP) enables apps to monitor for suspicious behavior at runtime.
When a threat is detected, Android RASPimplementations respond with pre-programmed actions, like terminating the user’s session, displaying a warning message, or limiting functionality.
Learn how Guardsquare’s DexGuard provides the most comprehensive Android app security available to protect your Android apps and SDKs through multiple layers of code hardening and RASP.
