First and foremost, this is not a “How To” or even a step by step tutorial to hack an Android Application.
This is my journey when I started learning how important it is to implement secure coding to the project—and some takeaways that I would like to share when taking this journey.
For the context, I’m an Android application developer and I love learning all about Android development. I’ve taken some projects related to smart house and VOD platform at my previous workplace. During my time there, I caught an interest in securing Android application using obfuscation.
Because no application is safe from Reverse Engineering—where you can decompile an APK to its original form (decompiled .java classes), and see how it was built. There’s a saying: