Protect my Android (Intel XDK) app from piracy

Question

I´ve been developing an Android app with Intel XDK but now I need to know how can I protect it from piracy.

Can you tell me the methods to achieve this and how can apply it with Intel XDK? (any example will be useful)

Just in case, my app will work with and without internet connection.

I´m new with this kind of security issues.

Thank you all.

Answer 1

From my experience building HTML5 apps with Intel XDK there are a couple of measures you can take.. The first one is to conceal the logic that may be in the javascript by making it unfeasible to understand it. This is called obfuscation and you should choose the most resilient option you can find. Most obfuscators are trivial to reverse so check carefully. On top of this, you can apply RASP capabilities such as anti-debugging and anti-tampering transformations. This makes your javascript protect itself basically. I'm using Jscrambler to achieve this and AFAIK it is the only solution that is offering these possibilities. I found them through some blog post they posted once..take a look