There are more than one billion Android devices in use today, each one a potential target. Unfortunately, many fundamental Android security features have been little more than a black box to all but the most elite security professionals--until now.

In Android Security Internals, top Android security expert Nikolay Elenkov takes us under the hood of the Android security sys-tem. Elenkov describes Android security archi-tecture from the bottom up, delving into the imple-mentation of major security-related components and subsystems, like Binder IPC, permissions, cryptographic...