Should I encrypt a user's password before sending it to the server?

Question

I want to authenticate a user by allowing him to create a username and password. Since I only find old posts about it, I'm creating this one.

Should I encrypt the password before sending to the server? If so, how should I do it? If not, should I use some specific configuration in my POST request to the server?

Is there any reliable third party api that I should use?

I know that Google has an androidx API for this things, but it's still in alpha.

Answer 1

If you use HTTPS protocol to comunicate with the server the data are already encrypted before beeing sent, anyway I suggest you to execute an additional encryption using Cipher.

PS see this question for more How to encrypt String in Java