Added in API level 23

NetworkSecurityPolicy

public class NetworkSecurityPolicy
extends Object

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.security.NetworkSecurityPolicy


Network security policy.

Network stacks/components should honor this policy to make it possible to centrally control the relevant aspects of network security behavior.

Summary

Public methods

static NetworkSecurityPolicy getInstance()

Gets the policy for this process.

boolean isCertificateTransparencyVerificationRequired(String hostname)

Returns true if Certificate Transparency information is required to be verified by the client in TLS connections to hostname.

boolean isCleartextTrafficPermitted(String hostname)

Returns whether cleartext network traffic (e.g. HTTP, FTP, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP -- without TLS or STARTTLS) is permitted for communicating with hostname for this process.

boolean isCleartextTrafficPermitted()

Returns whether cleartext network traffic (e.g. HTTP, FTP, WebSockets, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP -- without TLS or STARTTLS) is permitted for all network communication from this process.

Inherited methods

Public methods

getInstance

Added in API level 23
public static NetworkSecurityPolicy getInstance ()

Gets the policy for this process.

It's fine to cache this reference. Any changes to the policy will be immediately visible through the reference.

Returns
NetworkSecurityPolicy

isCertificateTransparencyVerificationRequired

public boolean isCertificateTransparencyVerificationRequired (String hostname)

Returns true if Certificate Transparency information is required to be verified by the client in TLS connections to hostname.

See RFC6962 section 3.3 for more details.

Parameters
hostname String: hostname to check whether certificate transparency verification is required This value cannot be null.

Returns
boolean true if certificate transparency verification is required and false otherwise

isCleartextTrafficPermitted

Added in API level 24
public boolean isCleartextTrafficPermitted (String hostname)

Returns whether cleartext network traffic (e.g. HTTP, FTP, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP -- without TLS or STARTTLS) is permitted for communicating with hostname for this process.

Parameters
hostname String

Returns
boolean

isCleartextTrafficPermitted

Added in API level 23
public boolean isCleartextTrafficPermitted ()

Returns whether cleartext network traffic (e.g. HTTP, FTP, WebSockets, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP -- without TLS or STARTTLS) is permitted for all network communication from this process.

When cleartext network traffic is not permitted, the platform's components (e.g. HTTP and FTP stacks, DownloadManager, MediaPlayer) will refuse this process's requests to use cleartext traffic. Third-party libraries are strongly encouraged to honor this setting as well.

This flag is honored on a best effort basis because it's impossible to prevent all cleartext traffic from Android applications given the level of access provided to them. For example, there's no expectation that the Socket API will honor this flag because it cannot determine whether its traffic is in cleartext. However, most network traffic from applications is handled by higher-level network stacks/components which can honor this aspect of the policy.

NOTE: WebView honors this flag for applications targeting API level 26 and up.

Returns
boolean