Android has been around since 10+ years now, mainly known as smartphone Operating System. It is the most popular phone OS as of today, it popularity was gained mostly because it was open source and OEMs could get that source and adapt it and customize it on their own devices, bringing more functionalities and options to their users. Since then Google has been extending Android OS to other devices such as Wearables, TVs and even Cars.
The state of Android Auto
Android for Cars was available since Android 6.0 in the form of Android Auto, which is basically a projection of your android smartphone in…
This is the first article in this series “What’s inside my app”, this series will focus on reverse-engineering and strip android apps down to their original base code -or at least try to get the original one. In each article i will be picking an android app from the play store, decompile it and lay for you all the things underneath it hood.
Feel free to suggest if you have any app and challenge me to reverse engineer it for you.
In today’s article, we will be talking about “Who touched my phone?” android app. …
What even is ProGuard !?
ProGuard is a tool that shrinks, optimizes and obfuscates code. While there are other tools available for developers, ProGuard is already available as part of the Android Gradle build process and ships with the SDK.
There are many reasons why you might want to enable ProGuard when building your app. Some developers care about the obfuscation part more, but that is not the only useful feature. You can also benefit from the reduction of the overall size of your Android application as well as removing unused classes and methods that contribute towards the intrinsic 64k method limit of Android applications…
Sometimes you want to check if a file exists before doing some file manipulations such as backup, copy, modify or just read data. However, C/C++ does not provide any built-in function to check if a file exists. Fortunately, we can use other built-in functions to develop our own function check whether a file exists. There are several ways to accomplish this task, but what is the fastest and best way to do so.
std::ios:good() function
In the first approach, we will get the stream from the file using ifstream , and then we check the state of the stream if it is…
Building Android apps with Android studio is very common among the Android developer community, but if you try to build platform apps or try to compile and import AOSP projects into Android studio, you’ll face one common issue, as the android toolchain and build systems aren’t the same, AOSP apps aren’t recognized by Android studio.
When developing for the platform, the build system for AOSP uses makefiles and android toolchains to build apps, whereas with the introduction of Gradle build system in Android studio, the default structure of the application has changed compared to the internal platform’s app.
This is…
I have been working on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) for a little over a year now, it was my first experience working on Android as a platform. Building and customizing your Android OS my seem like a daunting task at first, but it is not really that hard, but i am not here to give you a guide on how to build Android from Source but we will get to see how docker can help you in building your ROM.
Building Android for different platform can be frustrating, i myself worked with many Android builds from Android Marshmallow 6.0…
The world’s worst nuclear power plant accident forced the city of Pripyat, in what was then part of the Soviet Union, to evacuate after being exposed to toxic levels of radiation. In its wake, Soviet officials publicly downplayed the incident. To this day, scientists are still working to understand the effects of the fatal explosion.
What we do know is that the core of a nuclear reactor opened, sending plumes of radioactive material into the air. …
In the philosophy of mind, a major topic of debate is how the mind — something that is popularly thought to be immaterial — can cause effects in the physical world. That is, how can a person’s mental states (i.e. beliefs, desires, etc.) lead to physical events (e.g. raising one’s arm)? Beliefs and desires aren’t physical things, are they? How much do your beliefs weigh? What is the volume in cubic centimeters of your desires? If mental states aren’t physical, then how can they “cause” physical events? This is commonly referred to as the problem of mental causation.
The other…
Whoever you are, whoever you think you are, believe that you’re also a silent princess. Your name is Mysterious. Your journey is one through a forgotten landscape, sitting within dimly-lit crowded cavern, atop of a floating train defiantly crossing a dark sea. Sandro Botticelli could only grasp at in a dream state.
Dear Stranger,
Hi. I don’t think we’ve met. I just wanted to let you know how great you are. I know what you’re thinking. How can I know how great you are considering I’ve never met you? I’ve seen you there, one of those tiny bird-women, a beauty…
Procrastination /prə(ʊ)ˌkrastɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ according to the dictionary is the action of delaying, postponing and put off doing something now and deffer it for later. The term procrastinate comes from Late 16th Century, from the Latin word procrastinat- deffered till the morning, which is a combination of both pro- ‘forward’ and crastinus- ‘belonging to tomorrow’. if you google the meaning of procrastination you should find a quote “your first tip is to avoid procrastination” , such an elegant and simple solution, while at it, let make sure to tell obese people to avoid overeating, and depressed people to avoid apathy. Avoid procrastination…
