Security

For information on how to use the Security library in your app or library, see Security Overview.

Declaring dependencies

To add a dependency on Security, you must add the Google Maven repository to your project. Read Google's Maven repository for more information.

Add the following to each module’s build.gradle file:

dependencies {
 def security_version = "1.0.0-alpha02"
 implementation "androidx.security:security-crypto:$security_version"
}

May 23, 2019

androidx.security:security-crypto:1.0.0-alpha02 is released. The commits included in this version can be found in this commit log.

Bug fixes

Fixed issue retrieving key/values associated with shared preferences from getAll().
Blocked usage of restricted preference keys.
Minor Javadoc updates.

May 7, 2019

androidx.security:security-crypto:1.0.0-alpha01 is released. The commits included in this version can be found here.

New feature highlights

EncryptedFile, provides encrypted input and output streams to read/write encrypted data to a File.
EncryptedSharedPreferences, provides an implementation of SharedPreferences that automatically encrypts/decrypts all keys and values.
Provides simple key generation via MasterKeys.