How to Block Auto-Clicking Apps and Click Bots Android apps

Last updated September 25, 2021 by Alan Bavosa

Learn the 3 easy steps to Block Auto-Clicking Apps in Android apps. Prevent mobile ad fraud and click fraud.

What Are Auto-Clicking Apps (aka Click Bots)?

Auto-Clicking Apps (aka: Click bots) are automated programs used to automate processes with malicious intent by sending touch events repeatedly.

Click fraud is a type of digital fraud that occurs in pay-per-click (PPC) online advertising. In this type of advertising, the owners of apps that post the ads are paid based on how many people click on the ads. Click bots are automated scripts, or computer programs that imitate a legitimate user clicking on such an ad – usually to generate high volumes of artificial clicks, or for the purposes of diverting advertising revenue to cyber-criminals.

How to Block Auto-Clicking Apps?

Appdome is a no-code mobile app security and anti-fraud platform designed to add security features, like Block Auto-Clicking Apps to any Android app without coding. This KB shows mobile developers, DevSec and security professionals how to use Appdome’s simple ‘click to build’ user interface to quickly and easily Block Auto-Clicking Apps.

Appdome Prevent App Click Bots feature detects programs that actively insert fraudulent clicks while the app is running. Appdome click bot prevention can also detect if malicious click bot programs or apps are installed on a mobile device.

3 Easy Steps to add Block Auto-Clicking Apps in Android apps

Please follow these 3 easy steps to Block Auto-Clicking Apps

Upload an Android App to Appdome’s no code security platform (.apk or .aab)
In the Build Tab, under Anti-Fraud, Select Mobile Fraud Prevention and Toggle on Block Auto Clicking Apps (shown below)
Click Build My App

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Congratulations! The Android app is now protected against Aut0-Clicking Apps.

Appdome’s no-code mobile app security platform offers mobile developers, DevSec and security professionals a convenient and reliable way to protect Android apps using Block Auto-Clicking Apps. When a user clicks “Build My App,” Appdome leverages a microservice architecture filled with 1000s of security plugins, and an adaptive code generation engine that matches the correct required plugins to the development environment, frameworks, and methods in each app.

Prerequisites to Block Auto-Clicking Apps

Appdome account (If you don’t have an Appdome account, create a free Appdome account here)
A license to Block Auto-Clicking Apps
Mobile App (.apk or .aab for Android)
Signing Credentials (e.g., signing certificates and provisioning profile)

No Coding Dependency

Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites to build secured apps using Block Auto-Clicking Apps to prevent mobile ad fraud, click fraud, and other forms of click-based attacks. There is no SDK and no library to manually code or implement in the app. The Appdome technology adds the relevant standards, frameworks, stores, and logic to the app automatically, with no manual development work at all.

How to Sign & Publish Apps Secured with Click bot Prevention

After successfully securing your app using Appdome, there are several available options to complete your project, depending on your app lifecycle or workflow. These include:

Signing Secure iOS and Android apps
Customizing, Configuring & Branding Secure Mobile Apps
Deploying/Publishing Secure mobile apps to Public or Private app stores

Or, see this quick reference Releasing Secured Android & iOS Apps built on Appdome.

More Mobile App Security Resources

Here are a few related mobile fraud prevention resources:

How to Prevent Android apps/games from running in Virtualized environments

How to Prevent Malicious Misuse of Android Debug Bridge (ADB)

How to Prevent abuse of Android AccessibilityService for compromising Android apps

Check out Appdome’s Mobile Fraud Prevention solutions page.

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