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Published inApr 2024
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Harun Wangereka
Harun Wangereka
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Harun Wangereka

Harun Wangereka is a Google Developer Expert for Android and an Android engineer with over seven years of experience and currently working at Apollo Agriculture. Harun is passionate about Android development, never tired of learning, building the tech community, and helping other developers upscale their skills. He is a co-organizer at Droidcon Kenya and a former Kotlin Kenya and Android254 co-organizer. Through these communities, he has been able to impact thousands of developers. He is also an Android author at Kodeco where he has written 8 articles, published a book; Saving Data on Android, Second Edition, and is also a video course instructor. He has given numerous sessions on Android and Kotlin across different communities worldwide.
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Ensuring your apps are secure is particularly important. We need to ensure that our users’ data is safe and secure. We also need to ensure that our app is not vulnerable to attacks. Attacks such as malware, man-in-the-middle attacks, and data interception pose risks to sensitive information, while vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and privilege escalation can lead to unauthorized access and manipulation of databases or app functionalities. Cross-site scripting and code injection present avenues for attackers to execute malicious scripts or commands within the app, potentially compromising user sessions and data. Insecure data storage practices may expose sensitive information, and denial-of-service attacks can disrupt app services.

In this section, we are going to see some tips and tricks for securing our app. The following are some of the things that we can do to secure our app:

  • HTTPS: We should always use HTTPS for all our network requests...
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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837631711

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Harun Wangereka

Harun Wangereka is a Google Developer Expert for Android and an Android engineer with over seven years of experience and currently working at Apollo Agriculture. Harun is passionate about Android development, never tired of learning, building the tech community, and helping other developers upscale their skills. He is a co-organizer at Droidcon Kenya and a former Kotlin Kenya and Android254 co-organizer. Through these communities, he has been able to impact thousands of developers. He is also an Android author at Kodeco where he has written 8 articles, published a book; Saving Data on Android, Second Edition, and is also a video course instructor. He has given numerous sessions on Android and Kotlin across different communities worldwide.
Read more about Harun Wangereka