Lockin Company Launches SaaS-based Android App Source Code Protection Service

2024. 10. 23

Mobile application security specialist Lockin Company (CEO Myung-gyu Choi) announced on the 20th that it has launched a cloud-based Android application (hereinafter referred to as app) source code protection service, LIAPP ‘Lockin App Protector’.

LIAPP is a powerful mobile app protection service that prevents source code leaks of Android mobile apps and blocks security threats such as hacking, decompilation prevention, and debugging prevention.

Recently, attackers have been disassembling popular or highly used Android apps through reverse engineering and forcibly extracting the source code. Attackers are stealing the core technologies of app developers from the extracted source code or inserting source codes that perform malicious actions, causing secondary and tertiary victims.

App developers are introducing solutions to prevent app forgery and tampering to prevent such attacks, but limitations are emerging, and small developers are unable to even apply these solutions due to the high price of the solutions.

Unlike existing mobile protection solutions, the LIAPP service is in the form of SaaS (Software as a Service), so there is no need to purchase anti-counterfeiting solutions, and there is no need for an annual contract.

Developers can simply upload the package file (*.apk) of an Android app to the LiApp service (liapp.lockincomp.com) to download the package file with source code protection applied. To protect customers’ intellectual property rights, package files that have been protected are not left on the server and are immediately deleted.

Choi Myoung Kyu, CEO of Lockin Company, emphasized, “If the app source code is shown to others, it is the same as exposing all of the company’s technology,” and “In order to protect the company’s assets and intellectual property rights, technology must be applied that makes the source code unviewable.”