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chr7z

Re:Thousands of secret keys found in Android apps on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:46AM (#7915220)
There is a tool for moving API keys out of the source: Keystok stores encrypted API keys and tokes in a cloud service and lets the App / client retrieve them during runtime.

Its not just about moving keys out of the source, but about getting rid of local config files altogether. Related post on their blog: http://blog.keystok.com/why-i-stopped-using-local-config-fil...

Disclosure: I'm a developer at Keystok.

+1 for client-side encryption in general^^. Commonkey and Keystok.com both work well, CK just has a nicer UI and Keystok a better API.