On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Earlence earlencefe...@gmail.com wrote:
but this is only thru the adb shell.
Yes. And that's a good thing.
Rooted phones give normal application processes access to su and hence
privileged commands.
Sounds like a horrible security risk to me! :)
How can
From the first time the user registers himself he should be logged
on permanently, except the user logs out explicitely
What's the common approach for this?
My intention is to store a simple value as SharedPreference when the
user is logged in.
On application startup this value will be
That is why the superuser app (standard root provider for almost 2 years)
prompts the user to get permission for the app before allowing su.
Of course. Unfortunately, Superuser is a veritable bestiary of Android
security bug classes. We reported them when we discovered them, but
they have gone
On Sep 3, 7:57 pm, Paul Morgan jumanji...@gmail.com wrote:
Add to the list:
* local git client
Sure... me too. But then we'll be asking for a case sensitive
filesystem and a C compiler...
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The easy way is to get a wireless router and use it just like a laptop
would.
The hard way is to root the nexus, write some proxy drivers and muck
around with the network setup to forward connections to the pc...
On Sep 3, 6:41 pm, higonnet bthigon...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a measured 3G data
Stored website passwords are in clear text protected only by process
linux file system permissions, so accessable to anyone in possesion of
your device long enough to root it. Obfuscating them wouldn't be very
secure as the source code of the browser and underlying engines is
available.
On Sep
Regarding hardware key storage: The Android Compatibillity Definition
Document (http://source.android.com/compatibility/android-2.2-cdd.pdf)
does not specify one, so no.
Therefore, applications would have to get keying material from
somewhere else, such as a user's PIN or password. Failing that,
Can you tell me a good library for password en/decryption which works
on android and google app engine. I have to send an encrypted string
via webservices between android and gae.
I don't know anything about App Engine, but in one minute I was able
to find out that it has PyCrypto:
I think thhe most critical question might be if the phone displays
things the same way a stock android 1.5 emulator modified to have its
resolution does - or if not, if an emulator of comparable behavior
will be available.
Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote:
Dell's first US released smart
higonnet wrote:
In my experience, if I do lots of stuff with it, I inevitably get
screwed.
Lots of stuff means turning wifi on then off many times during the
day, enabling and disabling data (I have a measured data plan and I'm
cheap) many times during the day. I very often am unable to get
Are they by any chance found after unmounting and remounting the sd
card? Gallery often won't initially see things written by adb for
example.
Brian Conrad wrote:
I asked it here because it's more of a loose question and if others have
done anything like this. More of a discussion than trying
Do you mean Secrets by Brandon Stecklein? That is not a Google app. It uses
Coarse Location and Internet permissions; if it can access email or SMS
messages that would he a problem. Are you saying that it can?
On Jul 26, 2010 1:27 PM, sharedwd share...@gmail.com wrote:
The user will see when
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-application.html
On Jul 27, 2010 7:42 PM, Duane Blanchard dblanch...@gmail.com wrote:
Can you tell me more about the occasion that they used the kill button?
Thx,
D
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Xenplex
Reading
http://www.pcworld.com/article/199621/20_percent_of_android_apps_can_threaten_privacy_says_vendor.html?tk=hp_new
I can't help but feel cheated.
Undoubtedly the report used permissions to determine the 'security' of
apps: the more dangerous permissions requested = more risk.
Of course
Except not everyone has a Facebook account. I just cancelled mine.
Chris
On May 24, 2010 3:07 PM, Shane Isbell shane.isb...@gmail.com wrote:
One of the things I'm considering in regards to social encouragement is
tighter integration with facebook. That way you can see app comments from
friends
things like login (between facebook and zapp
accounts), it would just mean that you would see general comments and
recommendations.
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Chris Jordan cjor...@emailblues.com
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Except not everyone has a Facebook account. I just cancelled mine.
Chris
On May
For my app, I get about 5 cents per 1000 uses. For most apps, getting
enough users (20,000 opens per $ per day) is quite difficult.
The other challenge is getting people to use it. Just having ad-
supported apps sitting on their phone provides no revenue. And the
issue is that if people like
It is here. Android is out selling iPhone! It is only second now to
Blackberry.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/195958/android_outsells_apple_iphone_at_last_says_npd.html
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:47 PM, ThatNateGuy nathanw...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, Matt. Excellent post. I'm definitely with
at 12:05 AM, Chris Jordan cjordan...@gmail.comwrote:
When I first saw the iPad, I thought, great, Google will come out with an
Android version of this. Then I saw the WeTab and thought somebody had
beat them to it. But, after further reading I see the WeTab is not truly an
Android device
Yes, from the time I made the post until it appeared, they renamed the
device from WePad to WeTab and changed the URL. http://wetab.mobi/en
Since you guys didn't comment on the device, can I assume you don't
like it?
Chris
On May 8, 6:15 am, Andy Burns usenet.apr2...@adslpipe.co.uk wrote:
Al
in the vertical position and too difficult to
keep it in place when typing with both hands in the landscape
position. I suppose the books/magazines look appealing on it but I
already have a BN Nook for that.
Thanks for you comments,
Chris
On May 8, 9:33 am, Andy Burns usenet.apr2...@adslpipe.co.uk
When I first saw the iPad, I thought, great, Google will come out with an
Android version of this. Then I saw the WeTab and thought somebody had
beat them to it. But, after further reading I see the WeTab is not truly an
Android device as Al pointed out. Hopefully Google will come out with
There is a nice video demo in English on the Android Pit website:
http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/blog/392121/WePad-Pre-Testing
I hope they offer it in the US!
Chris
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When someone handed me an iphone to input my contact info I realized
that while the resolution is the same the screen is maybe 15% wider
which makes the portrait keyboard vastly better. The iphone also
seems free of android's error inducing random lagginess.
On Jan 22, 10:21 am, Hong
and not necessarily
those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries.
On 6 Mar 2010, at 21:03, Chris Stratton wrote:
As far as I know right now you have to use the web interface to
gmail. Wish it were otherwise
HcMAX wrote:
Hello,
On anfroid-gmail, when I
Droid, hero, and mytouch have usb master capability confirmed (g1
suspected but untested) however at least for the htc phones kernel
patches are needed. see the msm usb host thread on android-kernel
AH wrote:
Hello,
is there a way to plug in USB-Devices into an Android-Device (perhaps
with a
I could see a world in which android productively fragm...
differentiates into several tiers:
Tier 1 devices are actively supported by manufacturers who provide
updates, host their own markets (or boutiques within markets) of apps
they have tested and certified to work well with their devices,
As far as I know right now you have to use the web interface to
gmail. Wish it were otherwise
HcMAX wrote:
Hello,
On anfroid-gmail, when I forward an email, how can I edit the quoted
text?
It's too too bad I can't do it
Please give me some ideas.
Thanks and Best Regards,
Hugo
I would actually argue that allowing power users to have root
ultimately makes for a more secure application platform. Its pretty
much inevitable that it will happen eventually by one means or
another, but making it available up front ensures that anyone who
*really* needs security takes the fact
Al Sutton wrote:
If you want to talk about disappointment about updates then talk to an HTC
Tattoo owner.
3 months after the big product launch in Oct / Nov last year it comes to
light that 1.6 is all it's getting due to hardware constraints.
Sounds like the PCjr... ie, trying to build a
Do you actually type with two fingers? I find my phone usually fails
to register touches unless its held in the palm of the opposing hand
(something to do with the capacitive sensing I guess), so I type with
my dominant index finger. Using my thumb to more than mash confirm
buttons requires a
Now that at least three android phones (droid, hero, magic) have
experimental USB host drivers, perhaps it's time to think about how
USB OTG, or at least some form of host/device switching, might best be
added to the android kernel and platform.
- What's the best way to organize the host gadget
Has anyone been able to choose a font from the ones installed on the
android. I have tried various things but basically what I am looking
for is something along the lines of
body {
font-family: Droid Serif;
}
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have a UK publisher account and a couple of apps. I notice around
25% of the orders get cannceled becase of payment declined, I assume
this is due to the apps being in GBP
I am happy to create a new account and republish the apps in USD. Can
I create a US publisher account?
Can someone
I have spent 2 days with the Sprint store reps and Sprints phone tech
support on this issue to no avail.
I'm trying to switch from a blackberry to the Samsung Moment (android
1.5 phone) on Sprint. But I need to make sure I can set up my email
on the phone first and so far the answer is no but
Press the button on the Bluetooth and Droid
should be able to engage voice dialer and you should be able to call
someone via voice from bluetooth and all the other fun functionality
voice dialer has.
Anyone know when the Google developers ( or third party devs ) will
have this functionality
On Nov 13, 1:35 pm, Abdul Mateen abmat...@gmail.com wrote:
May be never
Well aren't you quite the 'glass-is-half-empty' sorta guy?
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Hmmm... maybe it's time to start researching unlocking info...
=D
Thanks again,
Chris.
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is unknown and will stay so because it is only the
released code that is open in Android.
That doesn't mean that Google or Android are bad, it just means that there
are fairly big limits to what externals can contribute with.
- Original Message - From: Chris Palmer To:
android-security
You can load and use the classes, but they will execute with the permission
of your app, not of the app whose code you're borrowing. Or are you saying
the code runs as the other app?
Even if Android did stop app A from borrowing app B's code as found on the
device, app A (or the developer of A)
Best of luck to you; I'm all for web auth alternatives. However, I think
you've got an uphill battle here. The usability concerns you raise and that
your commenters raise are not ancillary to the key problem -- they *are* the
key problem.
The set of secure systems is a subset of the usable
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Grizzly griz...@grizzlylabs.com wrote:
remote location. Is it possible to implement a API that allows a data
provider the ability to list security settings before allowing access?
In other words can my VPN ask the device if a password is set?
On Sep 29, 9:56 am, lbcoder lbco...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect that it is going to become a matter of need that at least
*some* of the google closed apps be distributed directly by google
from their website. Mainly and especially maps.
On a purely practical level, the lack of any competition
On Sep 25, 7:07 am, gjs garyjamessi...@gmail.com wrote:
And you can use Tmobile G1 on other 3g networks, I have since Nov 2008
- its called unlocking...
You can use it on other 3G networks that have the same 3G system
tmobile has.
The other nationwide GSM network in the US, ATT's, uses an
On Sep 24, 10:03 am, lbcoder lbco...@gmail.com wrote:
What good is a free sprint device when it is stuck using sprint for
the rest of its existence?
1) You could find out at no cost how well the sprint network works in
your location, and decide if its something you want to pay for
2) I'd
Hello,
The more to the group the better. A little healthy debate is good but let's
not clobber everyone.
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.comwrote:
Lets just welcome the sprint people and be grateful that they're
taking the time to engage with us
On Sep 24, 1:38 pm, lbcoder lbco...@gmail.com wrote:
With sprint, user's don't
have that choice. If they want to switch carriers, they are forced to
dump in (in the case of an android or other high end smartphone)
hundreds of dollars to switch carriers.
lbcoder, to which other US nationwide
There is a someone who has made an experimental bluetooth package one
of the demos for which is for receiving rfcomm data from an external
gps. But I think it merely prints the raw messages on the screen.
On Sep 9, 9:46 am, lbcoder lbco...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok then, to answer your question, no,
On Aug 25, 3:01 am, Scytmo scy...@scytmo.org.uk wrote:
So, assuming that the APKs in /system/app have had their classes.dex
extracted and optimized to separate .odex files, it sounds like
removing world read permission from the .odex files would prevent the
code being extracted from a live
On Aug 24, 4:19 pm, William Enck e...@cse.psu.edu wrote:
PPS: Limiting JNI library loads to just libraries reside in /system is
possible. I've done it, it works, the patch is below. Sure we need to
consider other things like exec(), but it's a start.
+ if (strncmp(pathName, /system, 7)
Don't think of Java, perhaps especially Dalvik, as a way to protect against
kernel bugs. Userland can't generally defend in depth against kernel
flaws.
Like all operating systems, Android trusts the kernel to uphold the kernel's
own design guarantees. If the guarantee is broken, that's a kernel
immediately,
but there is a reason why skydivers carry two parachutes.
-Will
Chris Palmer wrote:
Don't think of Java, perhaps especially Dalvik, as a way to protect
against kernel bugs. Userland can't generally defend in depth against
kernel flaws.
Like all operating systems, Android
As always, I don't speak for my employer or any of my employer's clients.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:43 AM, juanfeandr...@inalambris.com wrote:
http://www.mail-archive.com/android-security-discuss@googlegroups.com/msg00193.html
Have you tried this scenario recently, with Cupcake or the latest
I was having a problem connecting to my Belkin router. The HTC Magic
would see other networks in the area but not my router unless I
removed all security. This was strange because my Mac and iPod Touch
could see and connect to the router without any problems.
I reset the router and everytime I
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Akhilesh
Guptaakhilesh.iitde...@gmail.com wrote:
I basically want that on the press of a button(or a command), the
device switches to a mode in which certain services such as bluetooth,
wi-fi, camera and/or gps be disabled (i.e. no application can access
All,
If I wrote a good quality JAVA implementation of PGP and released it
under the Android/Apache license, what are the chances of making it
in to the Android API?
Thanks
Chris
?
Thanks
Chris
of apps are attributable to a given
developer without problems, the trust given to that developer
increases (like in ebay).
Could this be achieved technically and would it solve the problem of
(evil) developers not being accountable for their actions?
Chris
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:19 PM, jfr andr
I tend to agree. It'll be interesting to see if Nokia/Symbian can keep
up. They still sell 50% or so of total handsets.
What I'd like to see is Android and Google Apps and Cloud become a
business leader.
On Apr 3, 3:46 pm, lbcoder lbco...@gmail.com wrote:
Current market share is very
calls. This kind of sucks. I did a complete reset.
I don't think the problem is in the hardware, because the buttons
responds perfectly when I'm not trying to answer calls or hang up
calls.
-chris
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I was wondering why paid apps have problem downloading?, out of 2 paid
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downloaded). Is there a wait period to download the apps?
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The majority of apps on the appstore are priced at $1-$3
Anything higher than that is seen as expensive.
On 20 Mar, 16:41, admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com
admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com wrote:
People seem willing to pay less for android apps than on appstore.
I've seen good apps costing
If you don't have iTunes then you can see all the site sorted by
popularity on the app store using this website:
http://mobclix.com/appstore/1/app/-allcats/0/rank/page/1
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admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com wrote:
People seem willing to pay
There was a big discussion about this on the iPhone forums.
The conclusion was that Objective-C is find for most things. If you're
doing some number crunching on some complex data structures (e.g.
vectors/matrices etc) then you'll probably want to re-use your C++
libraries.
The interface to
Yes, I have one on my desk right now in the UK and it's working fine.
On 18 Mar, 01:42, zlam zlamina...@gmail.com wrote:
My understanding is that the G1 is a dual band 3G phone. It uses UMTS
band IV for 3G in the US and UMTS band I elsewhere. Europe uses UMTS
band I as do Japan and Korea. The
I'm nt sure where you are getting you are information from. What makes
you think that 1700/2100 only works on one operator in the whole
world
On Mar 13, 1:22 pm, jbraun juan.br...@gmail.com wrote:
I don’t know about you, but I feel very disappointed with G1. I bought
it because, being
I've done quite a bit of windows mobile programming for my day job.
The compact framework and Visual Studio 2008 are really nice to work
with. The big problem is that most devices out there in the field only
have CF2.0. So you either stick with the slightly outdated stuff (a
pain if you want to
You're not wasting your time, but if you want to make any monry it's going
to take a combination of events:
A hell of a lot of luck.
An idea that is great
No-one else having the same idea.
The skill to actually pull it off without making a complete mess of it.
The marketing genius to get anyone
On Jan 13, 7:11 pm, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote:
And yes, you are a troll.
I don't usually respond with such nonsense but hahahahahahaha.
You ARE a troll. That's hilarious.
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Actualy , Piggyback is one of the 11-20 winners.
and we killed 1700 projects just with our doc.(no tests at all before
the 100- 50 selection)
cheers
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Looks like they can't even send a device to the winners of the ADC1.
And i don't see google becoming a phone retailer ...
At this point i wouldn't expect much from google and try to find one
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