Hmm..tnx guys. I found this as William Ferguson suggested it.

http://www.androidsnippets.org/snippets/39/

This seems to be secure, but, can someone get this code and read seed
value and therefore get access to whole database?

On Sep 27, 2:52 am, DanH <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is an open source SQLite-crypto package which I've used on
> Symbian and seen used on iPhone.  But you basically have to load an
> entirely new version of SQLite onto the phone, and I suspect that on
> Android there's no way to switch it in in place of the existing
> version, so it wouldn't interface like the built-in SQL support.
> Also, of course, you'd be talking C/C++ native method coding in
> buckets.
>
> You can do your own encryption for individual columns, but you then
> can't practically index/search on those columns.
>
> On Sep 26, 7:39 pm, William Ferguson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > You could always encrypt the data in the database. 
> > Seehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/2203987/android-database-encryption
>
> > It would be nice to be able to encrypt the enture DB, but that doesn't
> > appear to be possible.
> > Seehttp://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=191
>
> > On Sep 27, 9:16 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:10 PM, svebee <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I just have one simple question, is it possible to extract (and read
> > > > records) SQLite Database out of Android application/.apk file/...)?
>
> > > > Because I have some important information in it, so I wanna be sure
> > > > it's pretty secure (only application has access to it)?
>
> > > Users with rooted phones can get access to any files they want.
> > > Otherwise, databases in the conventional on-board flash location are
> > > secure.
>
> > > --
> > > Mark Murphy (a Commons 
> > > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy
>
> > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books

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