Research of Software Protection Based on Android Platform YANG Yongyi, ZHANG Miao, XU Guoai (Information Security Center, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 15 Beijing 100876) Abstract: This paper discussed current software protection techniques for applications in the Android platform, and pointed out the shortcomings of these techniques. Then, based on traditional software protection technologies, combined with features of Android platform applications, the paper presents a new software protection technique for Android applications, 20 which based on key protection and tamper resistance. Keywords: Software Protection; Android; Key Protection; Tamper Resistance