Security Features in Android

Question

I want to learn the (maximum) security features in android.

Whatever security feature may be.

Can you please guide me for that ?

If you know security features please list it here. So that i can learn it very well.

So far i have gone through :

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/security.html

http://www.androidauthority.com/

Thanks, Kartik

Answer 1

You could always look into the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide as a starting point: https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-mstg

Answer 2

Here are a few other things:

• Market licensing (LVL)
• Obfuscation (ProGuard)
• Encryption and hashing using MessageDigest (SHA or MD5)
• AccountManager