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Using Deleted Provider

Using Deleted Provider

The Crypto provider has been completely removed in Android P (and was deprecated in an earlier release). This means that the code will throw a NoSuchProviderException and the app will crash. Even if the code catches that exception at a higher level, this is not secure and should not be used.

Issue id: DeletedProvider

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/cryptography-changes-in-android-p.html

https://goo.gle/DeletedProvider

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for Android 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Android, 2022.3.1 Beta 2

Last modified: 13 July 2023