Android: Room: no encryption and security?

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android51130 picture android51130 · Feb 15, 2018 · Viewed 26.1k times · Source

For now I'am using OrmLite over SQLite with SQLCipher. Is it really no way to protect Room database from being read???

Answer

humazed picture humazed · Feb 15, 2018

Room by default store data in the app's internal storage which any root user can access.

if you need some security you need to use encryption lib like this cwac-saferoom.

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