From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
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Activity and services - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
Activity and services
- Let us look at the four important components that make up an Android application. This information will be useful when we test for vulnerabilities in an Android application. To begin with, let us understand what an activity is. Activity is the UI component of any application. And activity represents a single screen user interface, and any action that you perform on that screen. In simple terms, an activity is to Android, what a webpage is to a website. Whenever you go to a website, you see a page and if you happen to click on any object on that page you're taken or redirected to another page. Similarly, whenever you open an Android application you see something like a page. This page is called an activity. When you click anywhere on this activity, you are redirected to another activity. The flow of control between two activities is either controlled through a user interaction or through flow controls defined by the…
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