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Android

Orlando Del Aguila
Orlando Del Aguila
11,142 Points
Posted by Orlando Del Aguila
Orlando Del Aguila
11,142 Points

Where to handle the API keys within an Android App?

My intention is to "hide" the keys in order to do not be shared with anyone that is not involve into the development of my app, in nuts, when we are developing applications using Rails or any other languages we can use things like environment variables, perhaps, there is something similar? or what is the approach that people does in this scenarios?

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,732 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,732 Points

Hi Orlando - Someone asked the same question recently and you can find my answer about one approach to hiding API keys here: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/what-is-the-best-practice-to-safeguard-the-api-key-when-sharing-the-source-code