Lightweight Android Security Toolkit for protecting apps against tampering, reverse engineering, rooted devices, and insecure runtime environments.

Sentinel

Sentinel is a lightweight, modular Android security toolkit designed to analyze runtime environments and detect potential security threats in real time.

It helps protect your application against:

• Rooted devices
• App tampering
• Hooking frameworks
• Emulators
• Debugging sessions
• Mock location abuse

Sentinel performs deep environmental inspection, calculates a unified risk severity score, and produces a comprehensive security report.

Features

♦️ Modular Detector Architecture: Easily enable, disable, or extend security checks.
♦️ Unified Risk Scoring System: Aggregate all threats into a single severity score.
♦️ Configurable Threat Threshold: Set your own critical risk level to control app behavior.
♦️ DSL-Based Configuration: Use a clean and expressive API for configuration.
♦️ Detailed Security Reports: Get a full breakdown of detected threats.
♦️ Lightweight & High Performance: Minimal runtime overhead for optimal performance.

Getting Started

Sentinel uses a centralized DSL configuration to manage all security checks.

implementation("com.github.ResulSilay:Sentinel:1.2.2.jitpack.beta")

val sentinel = Sentinel.configure(context = context) {
    /* config {
        this.packageName = packageName.toByteList()
        this.packageSignature = packageSignature.toByteList()
        this.threshold = 80
    } */

    all()
    // root()
    // tamper()
    // hook()
    // emulator()
    // debug()
    // location()
}

Instead of basic checks, Sentinel performs a thorough inspection of the environment and provides a detailed report based on threat severity.

val report = sentinel.inspect()

println("----- Security Report -----")
println("Risk Level: ${report.riskLevel}")
println("Severity Score: ${report.severity}")
println("Threat Count: ${report.threats.size}")
println("Timestamp: ${report.timestamp}")

if (report.isRooted) println("❌ Root detected")
if (report.isTampered) println("❌ App tampering detected")
if (report.isHooked) println("❌ Hooking detected")
if (report.isEmulator) println("❌ Emulator detected")
if (report.isDebuggable) println("❌ Debugger detected")
if (report.isMockLocation) println("❌ Mock location detected")

if (report.isSafe()) {
    println("✅ Device is secure")
} else {
    println("⚠️ Security risks detected!")
}

if (report.isCritical()) {
    println("🚫 Block app usage.")
}

Installation

Add JitPack repository:

dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositories {
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    }
}

Include the library in your app module build.gradle:

implementation("com.github.ResulSilay:Sentinel:1.2.2.jitpack.beta")

License

MIT License

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