Go to this address: https://console.developers.google.com/apis Create new project and Create Credentials (API key) Click on “Library” Click on any API that you want Click on “Enable” Click on “Credentials” > “Edit Key” Under “Application restrictions”, select “HTTP referrers (web sites)” Under “Website restrictions”, Click on “ADD AN ITEM” Type your website address (or “localhost”, “127.0.0.1”, … Read more
Let me try to break down your question to multiple subquestions/assumption: Assumptions: a) Keychain is safe place Actually, it’s not that safe. If your application is installed on jailbroked device, a hacker will be able to get your keys from the keychain Questions: a) Is there a way to put some key into an app … Read more
Crazy as it sounds, this is probably the best solution. Everything else is more complicated, but not much more secure. Any fancy obfuscation techniques you use are just going to be reverse engineered almost as quickly as they’ll find this key. But this static key solution, while wildly insecure, is nearly as secure than the … Read more
Is there a way to set one key for all developers? For the debug signing key, copy your debug keystore (e.g., ~/.android/debug.keystore) between developer PCs, and remember to update all of them again when that keystore expires. For the production signing key, copy the production keystore between developer PCs. Note that I have not tried … Read more
For the Google Maps Javascript API v3 the keys must be public on you page. The applicable text is: Restrict your API keys to be used by only the IP addresses, referrer URLs, and mobile apps that need them Go to the Google API Console and generate a key, restricting it to URLs that you … Read more
Whilst it is true that V3 of the Google Maps API does not require an API key, it is there for a reason. Google recently introduced the following usage limits: Web sites and applications using each of the Maps API may at no cost generate: up to 25,000 map loads per day for each API … Read more
The API key itself is most probably a one way hash of the domain the key is associated with and a secret only the Google API server knows about. It may contain some other pieces of well-known (to Google of course) information. When you make a request from that domain, the API server takes the … Read more
Unfortunately, keeping any key in your React client, even if you are using gitignore and an .env file, is not secure. As pointed out by @ClaudiuCreanga, React environment variables are embedded in the build and are publicly accessible. You should really only save API keys or secrets in your backend such as Node / Express. … Read more
4 steps npm install dotenv –save Next add the following line to your app. require(‘dotenv’).config() Then create a .env file at the root directory of your application and add the variables to it. // contents of .env REACT_APP_API_KEY = ‘my-secret-api-key’ Finally, add .env to your .gitignore file so that Git ignores it and it never … Read more
As it is, your compiled application contains the key strings, but also the constant names APP_KEY and APP_SECRET. Extracting keys from such self-documenting code is trivial, for instance with the standard Android tool dx. You can apply ProGuard. It will leave the key strings untouched, but it will remove the constant names. It will also … Read more