Disclosed are systems and methods for selecting a data entry mechanism for an application based on security requirements. An example method comprises: determining a plurality of activity states of an application during a creation of the application, determining, for each activity state of a subset of activity states of the plurality of activity states, whether a data entry mechanism of the application is dependent on the activity state, for each activity state of the subset of activity states for which the data entry mechanism is determined as being dependent on the activity state, determining security requirements corresponding to the activity state during the creation of the application and selecting a data entry mechanism for each of the determined security requirements corresponding to the activity state, during an activation of an activity corresponding to an activity state of the subset, activating a corresponding selected data entry mechanism.