How to avoid reverse engineering of an APK file?

Question

I am developing a payment processing app for Android, and I want to prevent a hacker from accessing any resources, assets or source code from the APK file.<

Answer 1

Aren't TPM chips (Trusted Platform Module) supposed to manage protected code for you ? They are becoming common on PCs (especially Apple ones) and they may already exist in today's smartphone chips. Unfortunately there is no OS API to make use of it yet. Hopefully Android will add support for this one day. That's also the key to clean content DRM (which Google is working on for WebM).