The real world is full of threats for Android apps users. They have to face threat in software piracy and the need of the hour is to protect the application from various threats like obfuscation, verification of license, and other means.
A paid application is also not safe these days. It may be stolen, copied and made public from different locations worldwide. On the contrary, a free application might be damaged and can even damage the brand leveraging valuable product resources like server bandwidth. This malicious hardware can occur anytime and the need of the hour is to protect the system from hacking. The problem is that the opposition is continuously improving the negative activities launched by the attacker. Then it is must to draft a hard target which is hard to break.
There is good news for android app developers and android app users. There are many ways to protect Android applications from hacking and malfunctioning:
Obfuscate the binary code of Smartphone with ProGuard.
Use License Verification Library. Must when android application is purchased from Android application market.
Use SSL to protect Android network communications.
ProGuard or open-source tool is used to compact and obfuscate compiled Java code. The resulting binary files are harder but can be reverse-engineered if the need arises. In fact the newly developed android apps have default ProGuard configuration for protection. The configuration file is configured automatically but will not work for all applications.
Android applications can be saved from hacking with a little careful approach.
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