Advanced Android App Security Beyond Basic Permission Controls
Android permissions are usually the first security mechanism developers learn. Need the camera? Request camera permission. Need precise location? Ask the user. Need access to a protected system feature? Check whether the appropriate permission has been granted. That is important, but permissions are only one layer of Android security. A production application can request every permission correctly and still expose sensitive components, leak authentication tokens, trust unsafe deep links, communicate over insecure networks, embed secrets inside an APK, or process ...
