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Note that some development environments (including Eclipse/ADT and Ant) automatically set android:debuggable to true for incremental or debugging builds but set it to false for release builds.
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<configuration> <compilation debug="true"/> </configuration> |
Risk Assessment
Releasing an app with its android:debuggable attribute set to true can leak sensitive information. In addition, the app is vulnerable to decompilation, resulting in alteration to source code.Attackers can leverage the additional information they gain from debugging output to mount attacks targeted on the framework, database, or other resources used by the application.
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