How to secure raw folder in Android

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I created a music app with my own music files. I placed all sound files in raw folder which is not secure. People just rename the .apk with .zip and started stealing my music file and they started coming with their own clones.

How can I secure raw folder?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 25 '17 at 03:36

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It seems like due to the nature of the Android .apk, resources are ultimately ex-tractable. Though you can prevent common methods like .zip using encryption, but the encryption key will need to be somewhere else in the application. Then you get to the secondary problem of attempting to hide that key. Alternatively you could use a web server to stream the music or send key for the encryption.

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answered May 25 '17 at 03:36

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Any library to make it easy? – Sai May 25 '17 at 07:00
I found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37274768/how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-audio-file-android – L.Link May 25 '17 at 11:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '17 at 03:53

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The best thing I'd recommend is using a server to stream your music to the application. There are a lot of workarounds if you keep the data locally on android. Use a server, you'll be good to go.

answered May 25 '17 at 03:53

How to secure raw folder in Android

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