Security

[Brian Berry]

I created an Android game with Kotlin. I used a lot of global variables I know global variables are usually bad from a security standpoint but since this is a game that I don't really care if somebody cheats or breaks into it do I really need to worry about app security?

--calmchess

 

[Deleted User]

By security, do you mean someone reverse engineering your code, and modifying it?

 

[Brian Berry]

No I've got R8 and progaurd for that

 

[Brian Berry]

I'm talking like somebody buffer overflowing my app or something

 

[Deleted User]

Kotlin/Java isn't really vulnerable to problems like that, because it has a different memory management model to languages like C and C++. Heap memory is managed by the garbage collector, and most variable types have known memory constraints.
Do you have information that leads you to believe that this kind of thing could be a problem?

 

[Brian Berry]

No I'm just asking about security stuff. You have answered my question thanks

 

[Deleted User]

Some more information in this thread, which agrees with what I said about it being managed memory:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/479701/does-java-have-buffer-overflows