🎯 What You'll Learn
- Understand the Android architecture
- Explain the app sandbox and permissions
- Describe APK structure and components
- Set up a mobile test environment
About This Workbook
Mobile is now the primary computing platform for billions of people. This workbook introduces Android internals, its sandboxing and permission model, and how apps are built and packaged.
Chapter 1 — Platform Overview
How Android is layered from kernel to apps.
- Architecture layers
- The Android runtime
- System services
Chapter 2 — Security Model
Sandboxing, permissions and app isolation.
- Per-app sandbox
- Permission model
- Signing
Chapter 3 — App Structure
What lives inside an APK and how apps run.
- APK contents
- Activities and services
- The manifest
Keep going. Work through each chapter in order, then apply what you learned in the matching labs.