Keeping Android safe: Security enhancements in Nougat

Posted by Xiaowen Xin, Android Security Team Over the course of the summer, we previewed a variety of security enhancements in Android 7.0 N...

Protecting Android with more Linux kernel defenses

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Security team Android relies heavily on the Linux kernel for enforcement of its security model. To bett...

Strictly Enforced Verified Boot with Error Correction

Posted by Sami Tolvanen, Software Engineer Overview Android uses multiple layers of protection to keep users safe. One of these layers is ve...

Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat

Posted by Chad Brubaker, Android Security team In Android Nougat, we’ve changed how Android handles trusted certificate authorities (CAs) to...

One Year of Android Security Rewards

Posted by Quan To, Program Manager, Android Security A year ago , we added Android Security Rewards to the long standing Google Vulnerabili...

Security "Crypto" provider deprecated in Android N

Posted by Sergio Giro, software engineer If your Android app derives keys using the SHA1PRNG algorithm from the Crypto provider, you must st...

Hardening the media stack

Posted by Dan Austin and Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Security team To help make Android more secure, we encourage and reward researchers who...

Enhancing App Security on Google Play

Posted by Eric Davis , Android Security Team We’re constantly investing in new tools and services to help developers build secure Android ap...

Protecting against unintentional regressions to cleartext traffic in your Android apps

Posted by Alex Klyubin, Android Security team When your app communicates with servers using cleartext network traffic, such as HTTP, the tra...

Using Google Sign-In with your server

Posted by Laurence Moroney , Developer Advocate This is the third part in a blog series on using Google Sign-In on Android, and how you can ...

One tap sign-up and automatic sign-in without password entry using Smart Lock

Posted Steven Soneff, Product Manager, Google Identity More than 30 percent of users signing in to the Netflix app on Android no longer hav...