Sunday, February 12, 2017
5 Amazing Christmis Card Maker Apps for Android
5 Amazing Christmis Card Maker Apps for Android
1.Christmas Cards Lite

Christmas is coming! Share your photos this Christmas with all your loved ones.
New: Support pinch and zoom.
In three simple steps:
- Select a photo from your gallery or take a new one from your camera.
- Select the frame that you want to apply.
- Share the postcard with your loved ones.
The application requires few permission to run:
Your location (network-based) and network communication: It needs this to show relevant ads for you. This is a ad-based application.
Hardware control and storage: It needs this to take pictures from you camera and store it in the SD card.
If you have any issue with the app, please, send us an email with the problem. Well do our best to solve it.
- Install it on your android Smartphone
2.Greeting Cards
This app has powerful functions and very easy to use.
*** APP FEATURES ***
?? 4 Categories, 15 Beautiful Cards ??
** Add your message in seconds
** Edit photo in seconds
** Save to local photo album
** Add Your Signature (Finger doodle)
** Share to Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, or via Email
** Paint functionality - Special Effects added.
** One click Share to All Friends on Facebook.
- Install it on your android smartphone
3.Christmas Photo Frames

??? Make the most beautiful Christmas Card EVER!!! ???
"The best Christmas Photo Frames on market!!"
"Christmas Photo Frames" is a collection of more than 100 lovely photo frames of Christmas for you to decorating your lovely photos. It has the same function as the Lovely Photo Frames, Love Camera, and some other apps. You can use the app with photos taken using other camera apps like: Line Camera, Instagram, Camera 360,...
Features:
* Import photo from gallery or take photo by camera
** Take photo live with frames
*** Gallery: browse the created photo.
*** Add Text, Balloon, Stickers to photo.
- Install it on your Android Smartphone
4.Christmas Cards
Christmas Cards help you create amazing Christmas Photo with wonderful frames and stickers. Your beautiful memories can be made more wonderful with beautiful frame layouts, tons of stickers and beautiful fonts and much more. The only limit is your imagination.

*** Key Features in a glance
* Amazing Christmas themes frames
* Over 50 Christmas Frames
* Over 150 wondferful Stickers
?* Over 20 text fonts and 4 text styles (Normal, Shadow, Embossed and Border)
* Easy use, zoom and pan to resize your photos
* Powerful photo editor including the following featues:
+ One-tap auto enhance
+ Gorgeous photo effects and frames
+ Fun stickers
+ Color balance
+ Crop, rotate, and straighten your photo
+ Adjust brightness, contrast, color temperature, and saturation
+ Sharpen and blur
+ Color temperature ("Warmth")
+ Color Splash
+ Focus (Tilt Shift)
+ Draw and add text
+ Create your own memes
+ Cosmetic tools: fix redeye, remove blemishes and whiten teeth
- Install it on your android smartphone
5.Christmas Cards

The cards are presented in the following categories:
1. Traditional
2. Contemporary
3. Humorous, Funny
4. Cute
5. New Year
With over 100 cards to choose from there is something for everyones taste. Your recipients will be delighted.
Our home page features a delightful daily countdown to Christmas commencing 30th November, counting down the 25 days until Christmas. The build up to Christmas becomes more exciting. Every day will update with a new image featuring a wonderful piece of art with an animal theme. Various creatures from our animal kingdom gather one by one over the 25 days before Christmas to help decorate the Christmas tree. The countdown continues into the New Year.
These beautiful pieces or artwork have been designed specifically for this application.
You can also utilise the event calendar to organise your Christmas commitments.
Heres wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2015!
Enjoy!
- Install it on your Android Smartphone
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
Create Intelligent Context Aware Apps with the Google Awareness APIs
Create Intelligent Context Aware Apps with the Google Awareness APIs
Posted by Bhavik Singh, Product Manager
Last month at Google I/O 2016 we announced the new Google Awareness APIs, enabling your apps to intelligently react to user context using snapshots and fences with minimal impact on system resources.
Today were proud to announce that the Google Awareness API is available to all developers through Google Play services.

Using 7 different types of contextincluding location, weather, user activity, and nearby beaconsyour app can better understand your users current situations, and use this information to provide optimized and customized experiences.
The Awareness API offers two ways to take advantage of context signals within your app:
- The Snapshot API lets your app easily request information about the users current context. For example, "give me the users current location and the current weather conditions".
- The Fence API lets your app react to changes in users context - and when it matches a certain set of conditions. For example, "tell me whenever the user is walking and their headphones are plugged in". Similar to the Geofencing API, once an awareness fence is registered, it can send callbacks to your app even when its not running.
As a single, simplified surface, the Awareness APIs combine optimally processed context signals in new ways that were not previously possible, providing more accurate and insightful context cues, while also managing system resources to save battery and minimize bandwidth.
Weve worked closely with some of our partners, who have already found amazing ways to integrate context awareness into their apps:

Trulia, an online residential real estate site, uses our Fence API to suggest open houses. When the weather is perfect and the user is walking around near a house they are interested in, Trulia sends a notification reminding them to stop by. This sort of tailored notification can help users engage with open houses at the perfect time for them.

SuperPlayer Music, on the other hand, uses our Snapshot API and Fence API to suggest the perfect music to match your mood. Whether youre just finishing up a run and beginning to stretch, setting off on a long car ride, or just getting to the gym, their assistant can understand your context and suggest the right playlist for you.
With our initial set of signals and our awesome partners, were just getting started with the Awareness APIs. Join us on a journey to build tailored experiences within your apps, by getting started with the Google Awareness API developer documentation, and learn more by watching our Google I/O session
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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web
Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web
Originally posted on the Chromium blog
Posted by Yusuf Ozuysal, Chief Tab Customizer
Android app developers face a difficult tradeoff when it comes to showing web content in their Android app. Opening links in the browser is familiar for users and easy to implement, but results in a heavy-weight transition between the app and the web. You can get more granular control by building a custom browsing experience on top of Androids WebView, but at the cost of more technical complexity and an unfamiliar browsing experience for users. A new feature in the most recent version of Chrome called custom tabs addresses this tradeoff by allowing an app to customize how Chrome looks and feels, making the transition from app to web content fast and seamless.

Chrome custom tabs allow an app to provide a fast, integrated, and familiar web experience for users. Custom tabs are optimized to load faster than WebViews and traditional methods of launching Chrome. As shown above, apps can pre-load pages in the background so they appear to load nearly instantly when the user navigates to them. Apps can also customize the look and feel of Chrome to match their app by changing the toolbar color, adjusting the transition animations, and even adding custom actions to the toolbar so users can perform app-specific actions directly from the custom tab.
Custom tabs benefit from Chromes advanced security features, including its multi-process architecture and robust permissions model. They use the same cookie jar as Chrome, allowing a familiar browsing experience while keeping users information safe. For example, if a user has signed in to a website in Chrome, they will also be signed in if they visit the same site in a custom tab. Other features that help users browse the web, like saved passwords, autofill, Tap to Search, and Sync, are also available in custom tabs.
Custom tabs are easy for developers to integrate into their app by tweaking a few parameters of their existing VIEW intents. Basic integrations require only a few extra lines of code, and a support library makes more complex integrations easy to accomplish, too. Since custom tabs is a feature of Chrome, its available on any version of Android where recent versions of Chrome are available.
Users will begin to experience custom tabs in the coming weeks in Feedly, The Guardian, Medium, Player.fm, Skyscanner, Stack Overflow, Tumblr, and Twitter, with more coming soon. To get started integrating custom tabs into your own application, check out the developer guide.
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Get your apps and games ready for space with Google Play April Fools
Get your apps and games ready for space with Google Play April Fools
Posted by Lily Sheringham, Google Play team
Google Play lets you distribute your apps and games to over 1 billion active Android users around the world. With advances in space exploration and the advent of galactic tourism, there will be a high number of users beyond this world that developers need to start thinking about, too. Google Play can now help you reach them. Weve added new features to the Google Play Developer Console and updated the material design guidelines, to help you design, test, and distribute your apps and games in space.
Heres a look at how The Guardian, one of the largest English-news organizations in the world, enhanced its Android app to enable astronauts and space travellers to stay informed and up-to-date, while in orbit or on the surface of the moon.
"I am pleased to have The Guardians application to test the growing Interplanetary Internet" says Vint Cerf, distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Googles Chief Internet Evangelist. "The interstellar version is in development and Im looking forward to having more Google Play apps and games tested in space flight."
Get your apps and games ready for take off today.
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Sunday, December 25, 2016
Google Maps apps for Android and iOS are getting a cleaner design
Google Maps apps for Android and iOS are getting a cleaner design

A Wi-Fi-only mode isnt the only new feature thats coming to Google Maps.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Microsoft Office apps get inking and SD card support Word gets touch friendly tables
Microsoft Office apps get inking and SD card support Word gets touch friendly tables
In the latest series of updates to Microsofts Office apps for Android, the headlining feature is inking support with a couple of other minor additions. Of those, the one most likely to affect your day-to-day use is that each app now allows for saving to SD cards.
Still, the most exciting part of these updates is inking. As the name suggests, this is digital ink. You can draw with your finger or stylus, as I did in the image below.
Read MoreMicrosoft Office apps get inking and SD card support, Word gets touch-friendly tables was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Building better apps with Runtime Permissions
Building better apps with Runtime Permissions
Posted by Ian Lake, Developer Advocate
Android devices do a lot, whether it is taking pictures, getting directions or making phone calls. With all of this functionality comes a large amount of very sensitive user data including contacts, calendar appointments, current location, and more. This sensitive information is protected by permissions, which each app must have before being able to access the data. Android 6.0 Marshmallow introduces one of the largest changes to the permissions model with the addition of runtime permissions, a new permission model that replaces the existing install time permissions model when you target API 23 and the app is running on an Android 6.0+ device.
Runtime permissions give your app the ability to control when and with what context youll ask for permissions. This means that users installing your app from Google Play will not be required to accept a list of permissions before installing your app, making it easy for users to get directly into your app. It also means that if your app adds new permissions, app updates will not be blocked until the user accepts the new permissions. Instead, your app can ask for the newly added runtime permissions as needed.
Finding the right time to ask for runtime permissions has an important impact on your apps user experience. Weve gathered a number of design patterns in our new Permission design guidelines including best practices around when to request permissions, how to explain why permissions are needed, and how to handle permissions being denied.

In many cases, you can avoid permissions altogether by using the existing intents system to utilize other existing specialized apps rather than building a full experience within your app. An example of this is using ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE
to start an existing camera app the user is familiar with rather than building your own camera experience. Learn more about permissions versus intents.
However, if you do need a runtime permission, theres a number of tools to help you. Checking for whether your app has a permission is possible with ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission()
(available as part of revision 23 of the support-v4 library for backward compatibility) and requesting permissions can be done with requestPermissions()
, bringing up the system controlled permissions dialog to allow the user to grant you the requested permission(s) if you dont already have them. Keep in mind that users can revoke permissions at any time through the system settings so you should always check permissions every time.
A special note should be made around shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale()
. This method returns true if the user has denied your permission request at least once yet have not selected the Dont ask again option (which appears the second or later time the permission dialog appears). This gives you an opportunity to provide additional education around the feature and why you need the given permission. Learn more about explaining why the app needs permissions.
Read through the design guidelines and our developer guide for all of the details in getting your app ready for Android 6.0 and runtime permissions. Making it easy to install your app and providing context around accessing users sensitive data are key changes you can make to build better apps.
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Monday, December 12, 2016
Android Instant Apps
Android Instant Apps
Back when the desktop was king, Google used to be all about the Web and the browser. As mobile devices got more popular, browsers were no longer the most important application for many users. Specialized apps for music, video, photos, messaging, maps were much more popular because they were better suited for mobile.
Google pushed the boundaries of the mobile web with Chrome, but a few years ago it started to move on. New services like Inbox no longer have mobile web apps, Google Play Music no longer works from a mobile browser, the Google Docs mobile app no longer lets you edit documents etc. Google started to index mobile apps and link to the apps directly from Google Search. More and more sites push users to install their mobile apps, some of them display limited content and force users to install the apps to read the entire content (example: TripAdvisor).

Now Google announces a new Android feature that will make apps even more powerful. Android Instant Apps will let you launch apps without even installing them: your device will only download the required modules for displaying the content.
"With Instant Apps, a tap on a URL can open right in an Android app, even if the user doesnt have that app installed. As a developer, you wont need to build a new, separate app. (...) You modularize your app, and Google Play downloads only the parts that are needed, on the fly. And when you do upgrade, your app will be available to more than a billion users on Android devices going back to Jelly Bean," informs Google.

Right now, Google works with a small number of developers from BuzzFeed, B&H Photo, Medium, Hotel Tonight, Zumper and Disney to refine the experience. Instant Apps will be available later this year as part of a Google Play Services update.
Instant Apps will be limited to the content you want to display (a Medium article, a B&H camera), but youll be able to install the full app if you like. Its like launching a personalized trial version of the app.
While the new feature is impressive and has many potential uses, I think it will make the mobile web even less important. If Apple launches a similar feature, developers will start to close their mobile sites and the mobile web will disappear. Thats quite dangerous, since it will limit the mobile OS choice to Android and iOS. Its much easier to create a site than an app and many apps are completely unnecessary, not to mention that web apps use open standards, while mobile apps use proprietary APIs and have to rely on closed app stores. The open web ecosystem made Google what it is today.
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Monday, December 5, 2016
Beware of fake Prisma Android apps Heres the legit Google Play link
Beware of fake Prisma Android apps Heres the legit Google Play link
Looking for the Android version of Prisma? Make sure you dont download a fake.
Did you hear? The unique, artistic photo-filtering app Prisma is now available on Android. But in the early days of the apps availability on the Play Store, you might be having a hard time tracking down a legitimate Prisma download.
Thats because, at the time of writing, the apps still relatively new on Google Play, and as such Googles servers are still surfacing an unfortunate number of fake apps in searches for "Prisma."
Fortunately the solution is easy. Simply download Prisma from the link below, which is the legit version from Prisma Labs, Inc. If youre following a link from elsewhere, check for "Prisma Labs, inc." as the publisher, and "contact@prisma-ai.com" as the contact email at the bottom of the page.
See Prisma on Google Play
Stay safe, and happy downloading!
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
Email Sherlock Doxing y ataques APT de Spear Phishing o de Spear Apps
Email Sherlock Doxing y ataques APT de Spear Phishing o de Spear Apps
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Figura 1: Email Sherlock - Doxing y ataques APT de Spear Phishing o de Spear Apps |
El objetivo es sencillo, en una investigación se trata de hacer un doxing y estrechar el cerco y, sabiendo que tiene una cuenta de un determinado servicio, un potencial atacante podría realizar desde ataques de Spear Phishing adaptados a una red social de la que se sabe que forma parte, o un miembro de los cuerpos de seguridad en plena investigación policial solicitar datos de esa cuenta. Este tipo de utilidades son muy útiles para las investigaciones OSINT, tal y como se cuenta en la charla dedicada a este tema por nuestro compañero Diego Samuel Espitia, CSA de Eleven Paths en Colombia.
Figura 2: Eleven Paths Talks [11] - Técnicas OSINT
Es un servicio que se puede consumir vía página web, pero además también puedes encontrar la aplicación en formato móvil en Google Play Store y en AppStore para iPhone. Gracias a esta herramienta podremos obtener información personal de quién se encuentra detrás de una cuenta de correo electrónico, podremos conocer su nombre completo, su localización, profesión, hobbies y muchas cosas más - dependiendo de los servicios -.
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Figura 3: Email Sherlock para Android |
En principio puede no ser sencillo conocer dicha información, pero al saber en qué redes sociales está dado de alta, se podría verificar si el perfil está abierto y conocer información de él. Por supuesto, también te puede ser útil para saber en qué redes has dejado tus rastros y debes eliminarlo... si lo deseas.
¿Cómo funciona el proceso de Email Sherlock?
Tras abrir la página en nuestro navegador observaremos un campo donde introducir la dirección de e-mail objeto de nuestra búsqueda, a continuación pulsaremos sobre GO y comenzara la recopilación de información, este proceso tardara un poco y al acabar nos mostrará en pantalla los resultados de nuestro análisis. Entre otras cosas podremos verificar que la cuenta introducida es válida, el nombre completo de su propietario y si se han encontrado otras cuentas asociadas a este usuario en diversas redes sociales.
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Figura 4: También permite buscar información en bases de datos del gobierno |
Normalmente estos ataques se hacen aprovechándose de los leaks de información que se dan en estos servicios en las procesos de login, de registro de una cuenta nueva o de se me ha olvidado la contraseña. Por ejemplo, en Facebook, si la cuenta existe es posible acceder a información del usuario aún no teniendo la contraseña con un proceso de login incorrecto - igual que se hace con el número de teléfono -. Otras redes sociales dan un mensaje distinto en el proceso de recuperación de contraseña cuando la dirección de correo electrónico existe a cuando no, etcétera. Teniendo todos ellos catalogados, te sale el servicio de Email Sherlock.
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Figura 5: Información asociada a la cuenta de e-mail en Gravatar |
Gracias a la información sobre las redes sociales en las que el usuario tiene una cuenta, un atacante podría iniciar un ataque de Spear Phishing suplantando la dirección de un sitio donde tenga cuenta. Si ademas es una información que él no ha publicado en ningún otro sitio, el efecto puede ser mayor y hacerlo más propenso a caer.
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Figura 6: Información asociada a la cuenta de e-mail en Vimeo |
Estos ataques son muy comunes y en muchas ocasiones pueden ser muy peligrosos y si por medio de estos e-mails se consigue inyectar una Spear App, bastaría para conseguir dar un paso de gigante. Es decir, si descubrimos que un usuario tiene una cuenta en Vimeo o Gravatar, tal vez sea útil enviar un correo con un Spear App para robar el token OAuth de esa cuenta de Outlook mediante una oferta irrechazable de una nueva app premium de Gravatar o Vimeo para su correo electrónico.
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Figura 7: Resultados de búsqueda con UserSherlock |
La página también nos muestra con más detalle si el usuario tiene perfiles en algunas de las plataformas más conocidas de la red revisando los nombres de los usuarios enlazando otro servicio útil de OSINT llamado UserSherlock. En ese caso no se puede garantizar que sean los usuarios asociados a esa dirección de correo electrónico, pero es información útil que quizá merece la pena revisar una a una.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Introducing Android Instant Apps
Introducing Android Instant Apps
Developers have built amazing Android apps. They use your mobile device to the fullest, including the camera, GPS, and sensors to connect to the real world. Theyre beautiful and immersive, with Material Design and smooth animations running at 60 frames per second. They use access to identity and payments to create seamless experiences.
But developers tell us they wish they could bring users into their apps more quickly and easily. With the web, you can click on a link and land on a web page it takes one click and just a few seconds. It should be easier for users to access a wider range of apps, and for developers to reach more people.
So, we asked ourselves: How do we make it possible for people to access a wider range of apps, seamlessly? How do we help developers reach more people? And how do we do that while giving developers access to the range of capabilities and experiences that Android apps provide?
Today were sharing a preview of a new project that we think will change how people experience Android apps. We call it Android Instant Apps, and it evolves Android apps to be able to run instantly, without requiring installation. With Instant Apps, a tap on a URL can open right in an Android app, even if the user doesnt have that app installed.
This is a big change, so its going to take some time. Weve been working with a small set of partners to help refine the experience, including developers like BuzzFeed, B&H Photo, Medium, Hotel Tonight, Zumper and Disney. Well be gradually expanding access for developers and bringing Instant Apps to users later this year.
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B&H Photo (via Google Search) | BuzzFeedVideo (via a shared link) | Park and Pay (example) (via NFC) |
If youre interested in learning more about Android Instant Apps, please check out the Android developers website, where you can sign up for updates as they become available. We cant wait to see what you build when your app is just a tap away. |
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Android N APIs are now final get your apps ready for Android N!
Android N APIs are now final get your apps ready for Android N!
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering

As we put the finishing touches on the next release of Android, which will begin to roll out to consumers later this summer, were releasing the 4th Developer Preview of Android N, including the Android N final SDK. And thanks to your continued feedback over the last three releases, all of the APIs are now final as well. If youve already enrolled your device in the Android Beta Program, (available at android.com/beta) you will receive an update to this Developer Preview shortly.
Get your apps ready for Android N
The final SDK for Android N is now available for download through the SDK Manager in Android Studio. It gives you everything you need to develop and test against the official APIs in the Android N platform. Once youve installed the final SDK, you can update your projects compileSdkVersion
to API 24 to develop with the Android N APIs and build and test on the new platform, for new features such as Multi-window support, direct-reply notifications, and others. We also recommend updating your apps targetSdkVersion
to API 24 to opt-in and test your app with Android N specific behavior changes. For details on how to setup your app with the final SDK, see Set up the Preview. For details on API level 24 check out the API diffs and the updated API reference, now hosted online.
Along with the Android N final SDK, weve also updated the Android Support Library to 24.0.0. This allows you to use multi-window and picture-in-picture callbacks, new notification features, methods for supporting Direct Boot, and new MediaBrowser APIs in a backward compatible manner.
Publish your apps to alpha, beta or production channels in Google Play
Now that you have a final set of APIs, you can publish updates compiling with, and optionally targeting, API 24 to Google Play. You can now publish app updates that use API 24 to your alpha, beta, or even production channels in the Google Play Developer Console. In this way, you can test your apps backward-compatibility and push updates to users whose devices are running Developer Preview 4.
To make sure that your updated app runs well on Android N, as well as older versions, a common strategy is to use Google Plays beta testing feature to get early feedback from a small group of users -- including developer preview users — and then do a staged rollout as you release the updated app to all users.
How to Get Developer Preview 4
Developer Preview 4 includes updated system images for all supported Preview devices as well as for the Android emulator. If you are already enrolled in the Android Beta program, your devices will get the Developer Preview 4 update right away, no action is needed on your part. If you arent yet enrolled in Android Beta, the easiest way to get started is by visiting android.com/beta and opt-in your eligible Android phone or tablet -- youll soon receive this (and later) preview updates over-the-air. As always, you can also download and flash this update manually. The N Developer Preview is available for Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, and Pixel C devices, as well as General Mobile 4G [Android One] devices and the Sony Xperia Z3.
Thanks so much for all of your feedback so far. Please continue to share feedback or requests either in the N Developer Preview issue tracker, N Preview Developer community, or Android Beta community as we work towards the consumer release later this summer. Were looking forward to seeing your apps on Android N!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
I can disable these facebook apps
I can disable these facebook apps
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5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week! – Android Apps Weekly
5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week! – Android Apps Weekly
Welcome to the 150th edition of Android Apps Weekly! Just like last week, we have our news broken up between Pokemon Go and everything else. That way, you can skip the Pokemon Go news if youd like. Lets get started!
Pokemon Go news:
- Razer has announced that theyre making a chat application specifically for Pokemon Go. The app, which will be called RazerGo, is a location-aware chat app that will be open to everyone who is in your general vicinity. The idea is to help Pokemon Go players chat it up when theyre near each other and talk about the game. It should be out before too long.
- The first sponsored Pokestops were dropped this week. The winner of being able to say that they were first was McDonalds. The chain will have most of its 3000 locations in Japan become Pokestops and Gyms for players to flock to and enjoy. We dont know when it will roll out to other companies, but it should be soon.
- A Redditor did a little research this week and showed that level scaling in Pokemon Go is absurdly high. Getting from level 30 to level 31 requires as much XP as going from level 1 to level 25. This has launched discussion about whether or not the game scales too aggressively and what Niantic can do about it. Well let you know how it turns out.
- GameStop has reported that their sales have spiked 100% since the launch of Pokemon Go. Theyve been able to make their establishments Pokestops or Gyms and have been hosting family events. This has brought tons of people which has, in turn, caused sales to spike. Its a genius strategy, really, and GameStop is one of many companies to see sales go up thanks to Pokemon Go.
- Its been estimated that Pokemon Go is currently making about $2 million per day. The AppInstitute website has a real-time tracker that shows you a rough estimate of what the game is making. It piles up wicked fast and the game seems to be making a ton of money right now.
- Pokemon Go was actually supposed to release in France earlier this week. However, after the tragedy at Nice, Niantic decided to delay the release there for a little while to respect the events that occurred there. There is still going to be a French release, but its going to be a little bit longer. It did launch in Canada along with Japan and 26 European countries over the last week.
- Sprint is jumping onto the Pokemon hype train by giving out a ton of free stuff. Each of their locations will become charging stations for players and they will also offer experts to help in certain locations along with Lures at locations that also have nearby Pokestops. This is after T-Mobile announced free data for a year for Pokemon Go players last week.
The rest of the headlines:
- A while ago, it was announced that a conglomeration of Chinese investors wanted to buy Opera for $1.2 billion. However, this week it was announced that the deal has fallen through due to regulatory issues. Shortly thereafter, a new deal was announced. The new deal, which features all of the same players, is for $600 million for a controlling stake in Opera instead of for the whole company.
- A court ruling this week has set a precedent that uploading videos of people in a bathroom stall to Snapchat without their consent is now a crime. This occurred after a high school student took video of another student in a bathroom stall and uploaded to his Snapchat. The other student later committed suicide because of the video. As a result, courts have ruled that such behavior is now illegal. Why this wasnt a law sooner is beyond me, but its official now.
- Twitter is making verification a little bit easier for user accounts. The idea is to help people get verified accounts even if theyre not as popular. The process is actually very simple. Youll be asked to make some changes to your profile to accommodate the requirements. After that, youll need to submit some links to verify who you are and then submit the form. Twitter will reach out a few days later if youre verified.
- Everyone is talking about a new photo app called Prisma this week. The app uses artificial intelligence to apply some truly unique filters to your photos. This gives them a unique look that you wont find with other apps. We have a hands-on video on our YouTube channel if you want to check it out. It was briefly available as an invite-only beta, but that has since closed down. Now were all waiting for the public release.
For even more Android apps and games news, dont forget to check out this weeks newsletter by clicking here! Its full of news, updates, and releases that we didnt have time for here. If youre interested, you can sign up for the newsletter using the form below and well send it to you every Sunday! For even faster updates, check out our official app!
Blue Angels Aerobatic SIM
[Price: Free with in-app purchases]
Its been a long time since we saw a good flight sim released on Android and Blue Angels fits the bill. The game is based around the official Blue Angels and youll be allowed to perform similar manuevers and aerobatics with these that you may have seen in real life. Youll have an Airshow Mode, Additive Mode, and more where youll be able to fly around and do some really fun stuff. Its officially licensed by the US Navy and its free to download.
Google Arts and Culture
[Price: Free]
Google Arts and Culture is a free app that lets you view all kinds of art, landmarks, and more. It boasts high quality, 360-degree images from over 850 museums and archives along with much more. This is a great app for art aficionados and its doubly good as an educational app for youngsters. It also comes with sorting features to help find what youre looking for and a Collections section where you can organize your favorites. Its completely free with no in-app purchases.
Suicide Squad: Special Ops
[Price: Free with in-app purchases]
Suicide Squad: Special Ops is a first-person action game where you play as members of the Suicide Squad. The mechanics are an unusual mix of first person shooter along with a fighting game. That means youll be bashing in the faces of opponents in the first person view. It has decent graphics and plenty of gameplay content for you to play with. The only downside is that it can get repetitive after a while since most of your time will be spent mowing down bad guys. Still, its a decent game, especially for fans of the series. Its also a free download.
Swiftmoji Keyboard
[Price: Free with in-app purchases]
A lot of people have been wondering what SwiftKey has been up to since its Microsoft acquisition earlier this year. The answer is Swiftmoji Keyboard. This is a new keyboard that uses Swiftkeys prediction system to try to predict which emoji you want to use and when you want to use them. It worked alright in our testing, but these kinds of apps usually get better the longer you use them. We dont know why this wasnt integrated into Swiftkey directly, but at least its free if you want to try it out.
Borderlands 2
[Price: $14.99]
Borderlands 2, yes the actual Borderlands 2, was released on Android this week. Well, technically, it was released on Android TV devices and on the Nvidia Shield Console. The game is a port and contains all of the same story elements, graphics, and gameplay mechanics as its console and PC counterparts. Along with the original game, youll also have access to new classes and characters as well as online co-op mode. If you have an Android TV or Shield Console, this is probably worth the $14.99 price tag.
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Friday, October 14, 2016
Dorking and Pentesting en Apps de AppStore
Dorking and Pentesting en Apps de AppStore
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Figura 1: Dorking & Pentesting en Apps de AppStore |
Figura 2: Conferencia sobre Dorking, Pentesting and Discovering with Tacty
No quiero desvelaros cosas aún, pues será en el mes de Junio cuando presentemos en detalle todas las cosas que se pueden hacer con la conjunción de los mundos de Android & iOS en una sola plataforma, pero sí quería enseñaros una muestra de la primera cosa que probé.
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Figura 3: Más de 300.000 apps de AppStore analizadas con Tacyt |
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Figura 4: Aparecen 3 apps gratuitas con un fichero password.txt |
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Figura 5: El fichero password.txt de la app |
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Figura 6: Explorando el contenido de la app después de descomprimirla |
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Figura 7: El fichero con la password |
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Sunday, October 9, 2016
Auto Backup for Apps made simple
Auto Backup for Apps made simple
Posted by Wojtek Kalici?ski, Developer Advocate, Android
Auto Backup for Apps makes seamless app data backup and restore possible with zero lines of application code. This feature will be available on Android devices running the upcoming M release. All you need to do to enable it for your app is update the targetSdkVersion to 23. You can test it now on the M Developer Preview, where weve enabled Auto Backup for all apps regardless of targetSdkVersion.
Auto Backup for Apps is provided by Google to both users and developers at no charge. Even better, the backup data stored in Google Drive does not count against the users quota. Please note that data transferred may still incur charges from the users cellular / internet provider.
What is Auto-Backup for Apps?
By default, for users that have opted in to backup, all of the data files of an app are automatically copied out to a users Drive. That includes databases, shared preferences and other content in the applications private directory, up to a limit of 25 megabytes per app. Any data residing in the locations denoted by Context.getCacheDir()
, Context.getCodeCacheDir()
and Context.getNoBackupFilesDir()
is excluded from backup. As for files on external storage, only those in Context.getExternalFilesDir()
are backed up.
How to control what is backed up
You can customize what app data is available for backup by creating a backup configuration file in the res/xml
folder and referencing it in your apps manifest:
<application android_fullBackupContent="@xml/mybackupscheme">
In the configuration file, specify <include/>
or <exclude/>
rules that you need to fine tune the behavior of the default backup agent. Please refer to a detailed explanation of the rules syntax available in the documentation.
What to exclude from backup
You may not want to have certain app data eligible for backup. For such data, please use one of the mechanisms above. For example:
- You must exclude any device specific identifiers, either issued by a server or generated on the device. This includes the Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) registration token which, when restored to another device, can render your app on that device unable to receive GCM messages.
- Consider excluding account credentials or other sensitive information information, e.g., by asking the user to reauthenticate the first time they launch a restored app rather than allowing for storage of such information in the backup.
With such a diverse landscape of apps, its important that developers consider how to maximise the benefits to the user of automatic backups. The goal is to reduce the friction of setting up a new device, which in most cases means transferring over user preferences and locally saved content.
For example, if you have the users account stored in shared preferences such that it can be restored on install, they wont have to even think about which account they used to sign in with previously - they can submit their password and get going!
If you support a variety of log-ins (Google Sign-In and other providers, username/password), its simple to keep track of which log-in method was used previously so the user doesnt have to.
Transitioning from key/value backups
If you have previously implemented the legacy, key/value backup by subclassing BackupAgent and setting it in your Manifest (android:backupAgent
), youre just one step away from transitioning to full-data backups. Simply add the android:fullBackupOnly="true"
attribute on <application/>
. This is ignored on pre-M versions of Android, meaning onBackup/onRestore
will still be called, while on M+ devices it lets the system know you wish to use full-data backups while still providing your own BackupAgent.
You can use the same approach even if youre not using key/value backups, but want to do any custom processing in onCreate(), onFullBackup()
or be notified when a restore operation happens in onRestoreFinished()
. Just remember to call super.onFullBackup()
if you want to retain the system implementation of XML include/exclude rules handling.
What is the backup/restore lifecycle?
The data restore happens as part of the package installation, before the user has a chance to launch your app. Backup runs at most once a day, when your device is charging and connected to Wi-Fi. If your app exceeds the data limit (currently set at 25 MB), no more backups will take place and the last saved snapshot will be used for subsequent restores. Your apps process is killed after a full backup happens and before a restore if you invoke it manually through the bmgr command (more about that below).
Test your apps now
Before you begin testing Auto Backup, make sure you have the latest M Developer Preview on your device or emulator. After youve installed your APK, use the adb shell command to access the bmgr tool.
Bmgr is a tool you can use to interact with the Backup Manager:
bmgr run
schedules an immediate backup pass; you need to run this command once after installing your app on the device so that the Backup Manager has a chance to initialize properlybmgr fullbackup <packagename>
starts a full-data backup operation.bmgr restore <packagename>
restores previously backed up data
If you forget to invoke bmgr run
, you might see errors in Logcat when trying the fullbackup
and restore commands. If you are still having problems, make sure you have Backup enabled and a Google account set up in system Settings -> Backup & reset.
Learn more
You can find a sample application that shows how to use Auto Backup on our GitHub. The full documentation is available on developer.android.com
Join the Android M Developer Preview Community on Google+ for more information on Android M features and remember to report any bugs you find with Auto Backup in the bug tracker.
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