Where to store sensitive global information such as API keys in Android application?

Question

I need to store some sensitive information in an Android application. If I put it in a resource file, it appears that it is trivial for another app to be able to browse and

Answer 1

Google has some good recommendations on this under billing. To summarize: use remote server, obfuscate and use secure random nonces. Nothing is safe in your apk as it always can be reverse engineered and obfuscation only works against simple attacks.