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Privacy and video (7.x Beta)

7.x Beta

This page documents the 7.x beta line. For the stable release, see the 6.x video privacy page.

Disabling video​

Video recording can be disabled completely via the VideoEnabled option — see configuration.

Protect activities​

Add a fully-qualified activity class name to the list of secure activities. When the user navigates to that activity, the screen is substituted with black frames and touch events are dropped.

Bugsee.addSecureActivity(MySecretActivity.class.getName());
// Later:
Bugsee.removeSecureActivity(MySecretActivity.class.getName());
boolean secure = Bugsee.isSecureActivity(MySecretActivity.class.getName());

Activities carrying the system FLAG_SECURE flag are protected without any Bugsee call.

Protecting views​

By View reference​

Bugsee.addSecureView(mySecretView);
// View is substituted by a black rectangle in the video.
Bugsee.removeSecureView(mySecretView);

By Fragment​

In 7.x the hosting-Activity argument has been removed — pass the Fragment directly.

Bugsee.addSecureView(myFragment);
Bugsee.removeSecureView(myFragment);
note

Bugsee.addSecureViews(int layoutId, Activity) still exists but is deprecated in 7.x and always returns false. Walk the view tree yourself and call addSecureView(View) per node.

Jetpack Compose​

Add the Compose extension module and apply Modifier.bugseeSecure() to any sensitive composable:

// build.gradle.kts
implementation("com.bugsee:bugsee-android-compose:<version>")
import com.bugsee.library.compose.bugseeSecure

Text(
    text = "Confidential",
    modifier = Modifier.bugseeSecure()
)

The Bugsee Kotlin compiler plugin can also auto-inject bugseeSecure() into password TextField call sites — see the gradle-plugin reference.

WebView elements​

Add class="bugsee-hide" to any element that must be redacted, or class="bugsee-show" to opt back in an element that is hidden by default (like type="password"):

<input type="text" class="bugsee-hide">
<input type="password" class="bugsee-show">

If you call WebView.setWebViewClient(...) yourself, register the WebView explicitly:

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
Bugsee.addSecureWebView(webView);

Protecting by coordinates​

Bugsee.addSecureRectangle(new Rect(100, 100, 200, 200));
List<Rect> all = Bugsee.getAllSecureRectangles();
Bugsee.removeSecureRectangle(new Rect(100, 100, 200, 200));
Bugsee.removeAllSecureRectangles();

Blackout — time-bounded full redaction​

Bracket a sensitive flow with startBlackout() / endBlackout() to fully blank the video and drop touches for the duration. This pair replaces the 6.x Bugsee.pause() / Bugsee.resume() methods — the semantics are unchanged, only the names.

Bugsee.startBlackout();
// ...render / interact with sensitive content...
Bugsee.endBlackout();

For a hard stop of all capture (including log, network, and event collection), call Bugsee.stop() and resume later with Bugsee.launch(...) — see Lifecycle events.