What are best practices for using AES encryption in Android?

Question

Why I ask this question:

I know there have been a lot of questions about AES encryption, even for Android. And there are lots of code snippets if yo

Answer 1

Use BouncyCastle Lightweight API. It provides 256 AES With PBE and Salt.
Here sample code, which can encrypt/decrypt files.

public void encrypt(InputStream fin, OutputStream fout, String password) {
    try {
        PKCS12ParametersGenerator pGen = new PKCS12ParametersGenerator(new SHA256Digest());
        char[] passwordChars = password.toCharArray();
        final byte[] pkcs12PasswordBytes = PBEParametersGenerator.PKCS12PasswordToBytes(passwordChars);
        pGen.init(pkcs12PasswordBytes, salt.getBytes(), iterationCount);
        CBCBlockCipher aesCBC = new CBCBlockCipher(new AESEngine());
        ParametersWithIV aesCBCParams = (ParametersWithIV) pGen.generateDerivedParameters(256, 128);
        aesCBC.init(true, aesCBCParams);
        PaddedBufferedBlockCipher aesCipher = new PaddedBufferedBlockCipher(aesCBC, new PKCS7Padding());
        aesCipher.init(true, aesCBCParams);

        // Read in the decrypted bytes and write the cleartext to out
        int numRead = 0;
        while ((numRead = fin.read(buf)) >= 0) {
            if (numRead == 1024) {
                byte[] plainTemp = new byte[aesCipher.getUpdateOutputSize(numRead)];
                int offset = aesCipher.processBytes(buf, 0, numRead, plainTemp, 0);
                final byte[] plain = new byte[offset];
                System.arraycopy(plainTemp, 0, plain, 0, plain.length);
                fout.write(plain, 0, plain.length);
            } else {
                byte[] plainTemp = new byte[aesCipher.getOutputSize(numRead)];
                int offset = aesCipher.processBytes(buf, 0, numRead, plainTemp, 0);
                int last = aesCipher.doFinal(plainTemp, offset);
                final byte[] plain = new byte[offset + last];
                System.arraycopy(plainTemp, 0, plain, 0, plain.length);
                fout.write(plain, 0, plain.length);
            }
        }
        fout.close();
        fin.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}

public void decrypt(InputStream fin, OutputStream fout, String password) {
    try {
        PKCS12ParametersGenerator pGen = new PKCS12ParametersGenerator(new SHA256Digest());
        char[] passwordChars = password.toCharArray();
        final byte[] pkcs12PasswordBytes = PBEParametersGenerator.PKCS12PasswordToBytes(passwordChars);
        pGen.init(pkcs12PasswordBytes, salt.getBytes(), iterationCount);
        CBCBlockCipher aesCBC = new CBCBlockCipher(new AESEngine());
        ParametersWithIV aesCBCParams = (ParametersWithIV) pGen.generateDerivedParameters(256, 128);
        aesCBC.init(false, aesCBCParams);
        PaddedBufferedBlockCipher aesCipher = new PaddedBufferedBlockCipher(aesCBC, new PKCS7Padding());
        aesCipher.init(false, aesCBCParams);

        // Read in the decrypted bytes and write the cleartext to out
        int numRead = 0;
        while ((numRead = fin.read(buf)) >= 0) {
            if (numRead == 1024) {
                byte[] plainTemp = new byte[aesCipher.getUpdateOutputSize(numRead)];
                int offset = aesCipher.processBytes(buf, 0, numRead, plainTemp, 0);
                // int last = aesCipher.doFinal(plainTemp, offset);
                final byte[] plain = new byte[offset];
                System.arraycopy(plainTemp, 0, plain, 0, plain.length);
                fout.write(plain, 0, plain.length);
            } else {
                byte[] plainTemp = new byte[aesCipher.getOutputSize(numRead)];
                int offset = aesCipher.processBytes(buf, 0, numRead, plainTemp, 0);
                int last = aesCipher.doFinal(plainTemp, offset);
                final byte[] plain = new byte[offset + last];
                System.arraycopy(plainTemp, 0, plain, 0, plain.length);
                fout.write(plain, 0, plain.length);
            }
        }
        fout.close();
        fin.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}