Debug with MTE on Google Pixel 8: Review

What you've learned

You should now know how to:

Recognize common memory safety bugs in Android applications.
Describe how you can use an Android MTE Test app to implement common memory bugs.
Build the MTE Test app in Android Studio.
Enable and disable MTE in the Android Manifest.
Debug the MTE Test app in Android Studio on a Google Pixel 8 smartphone.

Which of the below statements is true?

Memory safety bugs are errors in handling memory by the hardware. Although important, they are not very common in the Android codebase.

Memory safety bugs are errors in handling memory by the software. Although important, they are not very common in the Android codebase.

Memory safety bugs are errors in handling memory by the software. They are important and very common in the Android codebase.

Which statement is false?

The MTE Test application implements common memory safety bugs.

The MTE Test application implements four common memory safety bugs.

The MTE Test application implements four function that trigger memory safety bugs.

The MTE Test application implements four functions which are common in the Android codebase.

Which of the below statements is true?

To debug an application in Android Studio with MTE, you only need to enable MTE in the phone settings.

To debug an application in Android Studio with MTE, you only need to enable MTE in the Android manifest.

To debug an application in Android Studio with MTE, you need to enable MTE in the Android settings and in the Android manifest.

To debug an application in Android Studio with MTE, you only need to launch Android Studio with the device connected.

Which of these statements is false?

Memory safety bugs always make applications crash.

If MTE is enabled in the application manifest and in the phone settings, a memory safety bug always makes the application crash.

A memory safety bug can be detected by debugging the application in Android Studio with MTE enabled in the application manifest and in the phone settings.

To debug an application in Android Studio with MTE enabled requires you to have the device connected and recognized by Android Studio.

Debug with MTE on Google Pixel 8

Introduction

Background

Implement memory safety bugs with the Android app

Set up the app for debugging with MTE

Debug in Android Studio with MTE

Review

Next Steps

Debug with MTE on Google Pixel 8

What you've learned

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