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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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. …

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…