Note: This is a light fork of sqlcipher-android, mostly just to make certain changes to logging and error reporting.

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SQLCipher for Android

SQLCipher for Android provides a library replacement for android.database.sqlite on the Android platform for use on SQLCipher databases. This library is based on the upstream Android Bindings project and aims to be a long-term replacement for the original SQLCipher for Android library.

N.B. This library is currently distributed in source-only format at this time, and requires other external dependencies to build. Community edition AAR artifacts will be distributed eventually.

Compatibility

SQLCipher for Android supports Android API 16 and up on armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64, and arm64_v8a architectures.

Contributions

We welcome contributions, to contribute to SQLCipher for Android, a contributor agreement needs to be submitted. All submissions should be based on the master branch.

Application Integration

Add a local reference to the local library and dependency:

implementation files('libs/sqlcipher-android-4.5.2-release.aar')
implementation 'androidx.sqlite:sqlite:2.2.0'

or source a Community edition build from Maven Central:

implementation 'net.zetetic:sqlcipher-android:4.5.2@aar'
implementation 'androidx.sqlite:sqlite:2.2.0'

import net.zetetic.database.sqlcipher.SQLiteDatabase;

System.loadLibrary("sqlcipher");
SQLiteDatabase database = SQLiteDatabase.openOrCreateDatabase(databaseFile, password, null, null, null);

Pre/Post Key Operations

To perform operations on the database instance immediately before or after the keying operation is performed, provide a SQLiteDatabaseHook instance when creating your database connection:

SQLiteDatabaseHook hook = new SQLiteDatabaseHook() {
      public void preKey(SQLiteConnection connection) { }
      public void postKey(SQLiteConnection connection) { }
    };

Building

Android NDK

Currently, SQLCipher for Android uses NDK version "25.2.9519653".

External dependencies:

This repository is not batteries-included. Specifically, you will need to build libcrypto.a, the static library from OpenSSL using the NDK for the supported platforms, and bundle the top-level include folder from OpenSSL. Additionally, you will need to build a SQLCipher amalgamation. These files will need to be placed in the following locations:

<project-root>/sqlcipher/src/main/jni/sqlcipher/android-libs/armeabi-v7a/libcrypto.a
<project-root>/sqlcipher/src/main/jni/sqlcipher/android-libs/x86/libcrypto.a
<project-root>/sqlcipher/src/main/jni/sqlcipher/android-libs/x86_64/libcrypto.a
<project-root>/sqlcipher/src/main/jni/sqlcipher/android-libs/arm64_v8a/libcrypto.a
<project-root>/sqlcipher/src/main/jni/sqlcipher/android-libs/include/
<project-root>/sqlcipher/src/main/jni/sqlcipher/sqlite3.c
<project-root>/sqlcipher/src/main/jni/sqlcipher/sqlite3.h

To build the AAR package, either build directly within Android Studio, or from the command line:

./gradlew assembleRelease