Android - Where is the best place to place the "addProvider" / "Security.insertProviderAt" code line

Question

I would like, in an Android application where is the best place to place the following piece of code:

static {
    Security.insertProviderAt(new org.spongycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider(), 1);
//  Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());
}

Some guys do it in a subclass of Application, but I really don't want to subclass Application.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Personally, I also don't like the idea of inserting it subclass of Application. I prefer to add this static initialising block in my main Security/CryptoManager class for security related things, whose instance you know what you will always refered to/create before doing any operation which will require SC.

Just to be on safer side, you can make sure that this static block is executed by calling some method like

CyrptoManager.init()