From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
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Content providers and receivers - Android Tutorial
From the course: Android App Security: A Structured Approach to Pen Testing
Content providers and receivers
- [Instructor] Let us discuss about the third component of Android, that is content providers. Content providers is the mechanism through which an application shares and requests information from other applications. To share any information with other applications you have to provide a content provider and implement a set of API's. For example, if application one needs to share credit card details with application two, application one will publish a content provider. Application two can then access it after proper authorization. Similarly, requests for information from other applications are handled by an entity named content resolvers. Let's say your application needs access to Gallery or Contacts, then your application will request the content resolver for Gallery or Contact details respectively. It goes without saying that content providers are one of the easiest way to access data, stored or created by the…
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