How to programmatically add certificates to a truststore and use that also for verifying server authentication

Question

I my app I want to use a https connection to a user-specified server which uses a self-signed certificate. What I gathered by now is, that

• self signed certificates

Answer 1

You can use self-signed certificates. To use a self-signed certificate, you can convert it into bouncy castle format keystore which is supported by Android and then store it as a raw resource in your Android app project. How to convert and use it, all details can be found on Bob's blog. Here is the link for the same - http://blog.crazybob.org/2010/02/android-trusting-ssl-certificates.html. This worked quite well. Hope this helps