Android Hacker's Handbook

I have not finished the book and honestly I am not even close, but I wanted to give a review anyway because the technical depth of the book is amazing. This is not like some of the other books which provides content from web and other sources. This is original material and serious read. I am hoping to extend this review when I make progress to completion.

This book is an expansive guide to Android's security architecture. It is easy-to-follow and well-written, not riddled with typos and poorly laid out like many computer science textbooks. It can be a bit wordy and very technical. This is not a book for people new to Android, you should have some experience with Java and C if you want to fully appreciate this book.

Just finished reading the book - "Android Hackers Handbook". Truth be told, you can't find any other book which covers Android security and exploitation in such a detailed approach like this one. After reading through each chapter, you'll feel like you've gained a huge knowledge base, which you could immediately apply in real-life scenario. I personally liked 4 chapters out of the total 13 the most - Debugging and Analysing Vulnerabilities (Chap7), User Space (Chap 8) Exploitation, ROP(Chap9) and Attacking RIL (Chap 11) . Almost all of the concepts are explained along with the real code sample, which will help you when you try it out on your device. A perfect 5 for this book coming from the experts in Android Security.

Probably out dated by now, but its a good read

After reading the first chapter, you get a clear understanding of Android's origins and how the whole ecosystem works. The authors do an incredible job explaining things from start to finish. Chapter 3 on rooting devices also looks full of goodies. Great for plane and leisure reading, as well as to learn the fundamentals of Android security. Recommended for sure!

Starts from the very basics of security and android, dives deep into Android architecture, attack surfaces and vulnerabilities and even shows previous discovered exploits. Very thorough and detailed book.

The book is well organized, sadly missing alot of details. The first chapters are not well structured, with a lot of missing details, hardly reproducible, the enviroment setup is not explaind correctly. Some chapters have only 2 pages, crear lack of information an will to write decent chapter. The only thing decent in the intire book is a single vuln. Explained in resonable detail. In shot a mess, i will think twice before buying any thing from any of the authors again.

Very thorough and informative book. I am fairly experienced in android and I still found this book valuable. I can see where this book would be useful to the entire spectrum of readers from novice to advanced. A must have in any hackers briefcase.

Un super ouvrage pour les utilisateurs de produits utilisant Android (smartphones, tablettes etc.) Pour les anglophones. Un livre assez pointu pour les non connaisseurs des systèmes et de la programmation sous Unix/Linux et Java, mais accessible à tout curieux de ce monde ouvert et/ou à tout curieux de ce que fait son portable android, et comment mieux le gérer. A conseiller à tout curieux (anglophone) de ce qu'est une machine Android et comment l'atteindre au cœur. Ouvrage récent ( couvrant jusqu'à Android 4.4.2 )

Great book the right level of in depth technical detail needed. I rooted my new phone soon after

This was quite good and the delivery was perfect on time too.

Very interesting book with a different perspective on Google Android operating system from the hackers view. Nice format and index.

Ein Buch, das jeder Android Entwickler sich anschauen sollte. Sehr gute Beschreibungen, gut strukturiert. Security Design, Rooting, Hardware Attacks, etc. Wie es der Buchtitel beschreibt