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Testing and securing android studio applications

Debug and secure your Android applications with Android Studio

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a developer with some Android knowledge, but you do not know how to test your applications using Android Studio, this book will guide you. It is recommended that you are familiar with Android Studio IDE.

    What you will learn

    • Control the execution of your Android application by working with the debugging environment in Android Studio
    • Mitigate the existing vulnerabilities in Android applications
    • Create unit tests to verify the state and behavior of an activity
    • Use local storage and encryption appropriately to preserve the privacy of your application data
    • Ensure that communications between your applications and external servers are safe by protecting network connections
    • Choose the appropriate authentication method for your Android application
    • Set up the test environment to create test cases
    • Create functional tests to check the interaction between components

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Introduction to software security
    2. Security in Android Applications
    3. Monitoring your Application
    4. Mitigating Vulnerabilities
    5. Preserving Data Privacy
    6. Securing Communications
    7. Authentication Methods
    8. Testing your Application
    9. Creating unit and functional tests
    10. Supporting Tools
    11. Further Considerations
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-881-5
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 162