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android
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Android Processes & Security
How I circumvented restricted Google APIs to enumerate running processes — and discovered the Chinese applications that took advantage of it on 1.2 billion+ devices.
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Decompiling Google Safety Net
SafetyNet is a data collection system used by Google to gather security-related information from a billion Play-enabled Android devices — here is how to pull it off a device and decompile it.
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Easter Eggs in Android
Why Easter eggs delight users — plus a tiny Android example that surfaces a random Chuck Norris joke after seven taps.
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Android, Bitmaps, and Convex Hull
Adding algorithms to Easter eggs — using QuickHull on Android bitmaps so a flying bugdroid only collides with the parts of itself that actually exist.
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Lollipop Land — Game for Android
Lollipop Land is a fun game based off the Android 5.0 Easter Egg — how I back-ported it from AOSP and shipped it the day Lollipop's source dropped.
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App Ideas
Every known invention of mankind has started as a simple thought, an idea — but most "I have an app idea" pitches skip the questions that decide whether it ships.
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Becoming an Android Developer
A starter pack for aspiring Android developers — languages, tools, and resources to get from "Hello, World" to your first real app.
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