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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2016.16.05.013

Design and Implementation of Server-based Resource Obfuscation Techniques for Preventing Copyrights Infringement to Android Contents  

Park, Heewan (한라대학교 정보통신방송공학부)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.16, no.5, 2016 , pp. 13-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
Most software is distributed as a binary file format, so reverse engineering is not easy. But Android is based on the Java and running on virtual machine. So, Android applications can be analyzed by reverse engineering tools. To overcome this problem, various obfuscation techniques are developed. In android environment, the Proguard is most widely used because it is included in the Android SDK distribution package. The Proguard can protect the Java source code from reverse engineering analysis. But it has no function to protect resources like images, sounds and databases. In this paper, we proposed and implemented resource obfuscation framework to protect resources of android application. We expect that this framework can protect android resources effectively.
Keywords
Android Application; Resource Protection; Resource Obfuscation; Proguard;
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