How to Implement App-Specific Android Bindings Using AI

Last updated March 27, 2025 by Appdome

This Knowledge Base article describes how to use Appdome’s AI/ML in your CI/CD pipeline to continuously deliver plugins that Implement Android Bindings in Android apps.

What Are App-Specific Android Bindings?

App-Specific Android Bindings enable seamless integration between an app’s external libraries, third-party frameworks, and security protections. These bindings dynamically link the app’s core functionalities to security mechanisms at runtime, ensuring that protections remain active and effective across different Android environments. Attackers often exploit unprotected bindings to bypass security controls, inject malicious code, or manipulate app logic through runtime modifications. Without robust binding protections, mobile apps are vulnerable to reverse engineering, static and dynamic analysis, and sophisticated tampering methods. Strengthening Android bindings is essential for ensuring app security, safeguarding sensitive data, and maintaining compliance with industry regulations like PCI DSS and GDPR.

How Appdome Protects Android Apps With App-Specific Android Bindings?

Appdome’s dynamic App-Specific Android Bindings plugin automates the secure binding of critical app functions, external libraries, and security frameworks at runtime. This protection obfuscates runtime integrations, preventing attackers from analyzing or modifying security mechanisms through external environments. Appdome provides automatic and custom binding schemes, allowing developers to select which binaries and symbols to protect. By preventing unauthorized code execution and tampering, this protection ensures app resilience against reverse engineering and runtime manipulation.

Appdome will receive input that indicates which binaries and which code flows within the binary to bind.

This means the Appdome user will be presented with a list of binaries within the app and will have the option to select which binaries should be protected.

In addition, the user can select the binding scheme:

  • Automatic Binding Scheme – Protects common & generic functions.
  • Custom Binding Scheme – The Appdome user selects a list of symbols or manually inputs the names of the symbols to bind.

This protection provides a solution for:

  • Apps requiring broader binding coverage to counter advanced attackers who have intimate knowledge of the app.
  • Performance-heavy apps that need a tailor-made solution to prevent performance issues (e.g., mobile games).

Prerequisites for Using Appdome's App-Specific Android Bindings Plugins:

To use Appdome’s mobile app security build system to Implement Android Bindings , you’ll need:

How to Implement Implement Android Bindings in Android Apps Using Appdome

On Appdome, follow these 3 simple steps to create self-defending Android Apps that Implement Android Bindings without an SDK or gateway:

  1. Designate the Mobile App to be protected.

    1. Upload an app via the Appdome Mobile Defense platform GUI or via Appdome’s DEV-API or CI/CD Plugins.

    2. Android Formats: .apk or .aab
    3. App-Specific Android Bindings is compatible with: Java, JS, C++, C#, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Xamarin, Cordova and other Android apps.
  2. Select the defense: App-Specific Android Bindings.

      1. Create and name the Fusion Set (security template) that will contain the App-Specific Android Bindings feature as shown below:
        fusion set that contains App-Specific Android Bindings

        Figure 1: Fusion Set that will contain the App-Specific Android Bindings feature

      2. Follow the steps in Sections 2.2-2.2.2 of this article to add the App-Specific Android Bindings feature to your Fusion Set via the Appdome Console.

      3. When you select the App-Specific Android Bindings you'll notice that the Fusion Set you created in step 2.1 now bears the icon of the protection category that contains App-Specific Android Bindings.

        Fusion Set applied App-Specific Android Bindings

        Figure 2: Fusion Set that displays the newly added App-Specific Android Bindings protection
        Note: Annotating the Fusion Set to identify the protection(s) selected is optional only (not mandatory).

      4. Open the Fusion Set Detail Summary by clicking the “...” symbol on the far-right corner of the Fusion Set. Copy the Fusion Set ID from the Fusion Set Detail Summary (as shown below): fusion Set Detail Summary image

        Figure 3: Fusion Set Detail Summary

      5. Follow the instructions below to use the Fusion Set ID inside any standard mobile DevOps or CI/CD toolkit like Bitrise, Jenkins, Travis, Team City, Circle CI or other system:
        1. Refer to the Appdome API Reference Guide for API building instructions.
        2. Look for sample APIs in Appdome’s GitHub Repository.
    1. Add the App-Specific Android Bindings feature to your security template.

      1. Navigate to Build > Anti Fraud tab > Mobile Cheat Prevention section in the Appdome Console.
      2. Toggle On App-Specific Android Bindings.

        (a) Choose to monitor this attack vector by checking the Threat Events checkbox associated with App-Specific Android Bindings as shown below.

        (b) To receive mobile Threat Monitoring, check the ThreatScope™ box as shown below. For more details, see our knowledge base article on ThreatScope™ Mobile XDR.
        App-Specific Android Bindings option

        Figure 4: Selecting Implement Android Bindings

        Note: The Appdome Platform displays the Mobile Operation Systems supported by each defense in real-time. For more details, see our OS Support Policy KB.

      3. Select the Threat-Event™ in-app mobile Threat Defense and Intelligence policy for App-Specific Android Bindings:
        1. Threat-Events™ OFF > In-App Defense

          If the Threat-Events™ setting is not selected. Appdome will detect and defend the user and app by enforcing Android Bindings.

        2. Threat-Events™ ON > In-App Detection

          When this setting is used, Appdome detects binding manipulation and passes Appdome’s Threat-Event™ attack intelligence to the app’s business logic for processing, enforcement, and user notification. For more information on consuming and using Appdome Threat-Events™ in the app, see section Using Threat-Events™ to Implement App-Specific Android Bindings Intelligence and Control in Mobile Apps.

        3. Threat-Events™ ON > In-App Defense

          When this setting is used, Appdome detects and defends against Android Bindings (same as Appdome Enforce) and passes Appdome’s Threat-Event™ attack intelligence to the app’s business logic for processing. For more information on consuming and using Appdome Threat-Events™ in the app, see section Using Threat-Events™ for Implement App-Specific Android Bindings Intelligence and Control in Mobile Apps.

      4. Configure the User Experience Options for App-Specific Android Bindings:
        With Threat-Events™ OFF, Appdome provides several user experience options for mobile brands and developers.
        1. App Compromise Notification: Customize the pop-up or toast Appdome uses to notify the user when a threat is present while using the protected mobile app.
        2. Short message Option. This is available for mobile devices that allow a banner notification for security events.
        3. Localized Message Option. Allows Appdome users to support global languages in security notifications.

          Localized Message

          Figure 5: Default User Experience Options for Appdome’s Android Bindings

        4. App-Specific Android Bindings Threat Code™. Appdome uses AI/ML to generate a unique code each time App-Specific Android Bindings is triggered by an active threat on the mobile device. Use the code in Appdome Threat Resolution Center™ to help end users identify, find and resolve active threats on the personal mobile devices.
    2. Initiate the build command either by clicking Build My App at the bottom of the Build Workflow (shown in Figure 4) or via your CI/CD as described in Section 2.1.4.
    Congratulations!  The App-Specific Android Bindings protection is now added to the mobile app
  3. Certify the App-Specific Android Bindings feature in Android Apps

    After building App-Specific Android Bindings, Appdome generates a Certified Secure™ certificate to guarantee that the App-Specific Android Bindings protection has been added and is protecting the app. To verify that the App-Specific Android Bindings protection has been added to the mobile app, locate the protection in the Certified Secure™ certificate as shown below: App-Specific Android Bindings shown in Certificate secure

    Figure 6: Certified Secure™ certificate

    Each Certified Secure™ certificate provides DevOps and DevSecOps organizations the entire workflow summary, audit trail of each build, and proof of protection that App-Specific Android Bindings has been added to each Android app. Certified Secure provides instant and in-line DevSecOps compliance certification that App-Specific Android Bindings and other mobile app security features are in each build of the mobile app.

Using Threat-Events™ for Android Bindings Intelligence and Control in Android Apps

Appdome Threat-Events™ provides consumable in-app mobile app attack intelligence and defense control when Android Bindings are detected. To consume and use Threat-Events™ for Android Bindings in Android Apps, use registerReceiver in the Application OnCreate, and the code samples for Threat-Events™ for Android Bindings shown below.

The specifications and options for Threat-Events™ for Android Bindings are:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Threat-Event™ Elements Implement Android Bindings Method Detail
Appdome Feature Name App-Specific Android Bindings
Threat-Event Mode
OFF, IN-APP DEFENSE Appdome detects, defends and notifies user (standard OS dialog) using customizable messaging.
ON, IN-APP DETECTION Appdome detects the attack or threat and passes the event in a standard format to the app for processing (app chooses how and when to enforce).
ON, IN-APP DEFENSE Uses Appdome Enforce mode for any attack or threat and passes the event in a standard format to the app for processing (gather intel on attacks and threats without losing any protection).
Certified Secure™ Threat Event Check
Visible in ThreatScope™
Developer Parameters for Implementing Android Bindings Threat-Event™
Threat-Event NAME AppIntegrityError
Threat-Event DATA reasonData
Threat-Event CODE reasonCode
Threat-Event REF 6801
Threat-Event SCORE
currentThreatEventScore Current Threat-Event score
threatEventsScore Total Threat-events score
Threat-Event Context Keys
message Message displayed for the user on event
failSafeEnforce Timed enforcement against the identified threat
externalID The external ID of the event which can be listened via Threat Events
osVersion OS version of the current device
deviceModel Current device model
deviceManufacturer The manufacturer of the current device
fusedAppToken The task ID of the Appdome fusion of the currently running app
kernelInfo Info about the kernel: system name, node name, release, version and machine.
carrierPlmn PLMN of the device. Only available for Android devices.
deviceID Current device ID
reasonCode Reason code of the occurred event
buildDate Appdome fusion date of the current application
devicePlatform OS name of the current device
carrierName Carrier name of the current device. Only available for Android.
updatedOSVersion Is the OS version up to date
deviceBrand Brand of the device
deviceBoard Board of the device
buildUser Build user
buildHost Build host
sdkVersion Sdk version
timeZone Time zone
deviceFaceDown Is the device face down
locationLong Location longitude conditioned by location permission
locationLat Location latitude conditioned by location permission
locationState Location state conditioned by location permission
wifiSsid Wifi SSID
wifiSsidPermissionStatus Wifi SSID permission status
threatCode The last six characters of the threat code specify the OS, allowing the Threat Resolution Center to address the attack on the affected device.
AntampIntegrityErrorMessage Error message
data Data related to the security event
certificateSHA1 Failed certificate

With Threat-Events™ enabled (turned ON), Android developers can get detailed attack intelligence and granular defense control in Android applications and create amazing user experiences for all mobile end users when Android Bindings are detected.


The following is a code sample for native Android apps, which uses all values in the specification above for App-Specific Android Bindings:


Important! Replace all placeholder instances of <Context Key> with the specific name of your threat event context key across all language examples. This is crucial to ensure your code functions correctly with the intended event data. For example, The <Context Key> could be the message, externalID, OS Version, reason code, etc.



Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites to build secured Android Apps by using App-Specific Android Bindings. There is no SDK and no library to code or implement in the app and no gateway to deploy in your network. All protections are built into each app and the resulting app is self-defending and self-protecting.

Releasing and Publishing Mobile Apps with App-Specific Android Bindings

After successfully securing your app by using Appdome, there are several available options to complete your project, depending on your app lifecycle or workflow. These include:

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