[android-discuss] App Standby feature’s App Idle Duration time updated to 1095d0h33m20s0ms

2016-06-17 Thread Chris Wu
I found once device connected to network, App Standby feature’s mAppIdleDurationMillis will be update to 9461000 Which means device’s App Standby won’t put apps to in-active state till user used the device for 3 years? Value dumped with command: adb shell dumpsys usagestats Settings:

[android-security-discuss] Smart Lock Biometrics Privacy 5.1.1

2015-11-14 Thread Chris Leininger
Trusted Face and Trusted Voice supposedly only saves biometric information on the device, and removes it when you like. However, I can't accept this at face value; I need to know how the code works to understand its security. Can someone with knowledge of these programs provide some insight?

[android-security-discuss] Verified Boot on Samsung Manta

2015-05-25 Thread Chris Furlough
sending 'keystore' (1 KB)... OKAY [ 0.009s] writing 'keystore'... FAILED (remote: unknown partition...) finished. total time: 0.015s Anyone know what's going on here? THANKS! -Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Security Discussions group

[android-security-discuss] Re: DTLS on Android

2013-11-08 Thread Chris C.
, along with CyaSSL, can be integrated into a standard Android NDK application. We haven't published this anywhere on the web yet, but feel free to drop us a note at i...@wolfssl.com and we'll be happy to email it to you. Best Regards, Chris On Friday, March 16, 2012 4:26:46 AM UTC-6, Echelon wrote

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Anyone get this? (I respect and admire...)

2013-10-30 Thread Chris Triton
Me neither. Most of the time those are full of compliments and text that clearly copy past info from apps and contact details from Play On Oct 30, 2013 10:24 PM, Mike Wolfson mwolf...@gmail.com wrote: It looks legit to me. I didn't receive anything like this. On Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Re: [android-discuss] Interesting email from an Android user

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Saturday, March 2, 2013 2:32:23 PM UTC-6, John Coryat wrote: it sounds like the bug on your side (no offense and sorry if I misunderstood the problem)... The problem isn't our app, it's the state of Android introductory orientation. If users don't know how to properly end apps, then

[android-discuss] Re: Apprivacy

2012-08-16 Thread Chris Stratton
On Aug 16, 4:31 pm, omoling omol...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't expect lots of positive feedback from developers, I rather would have liked some feedback to make the app accepted also by devs. The fundamental problem is that the niche your app fits into is created by the unworkably broad

[android-discuss] Re: Nexus 7 Questions

2012-07-01 Thread Chris Stratton
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 5:16:15 PM UTC-4, Chris Stratton wrote: So the Nexus 7 tablet is announced. Very tempted to order one. Can anyone confirm: 1) If it will have fastboot oem unlock or similar capability to support experimental android builds, as the other Nexus-branded

[android-discuss] Nexus 7 Questions

2012-06-27 Thread Chris Stratton
So the Nexus 7 tablet is announced. Very tempted to order one. Can anyone confirm: 1) If it will have fastboot oem unlock or similar capability to support experimental android builds, as the other Nexus-branded devices have? 2) If there is both electrical and API support for USB host mode? 3)

[android-discuss] Re: Nexus 7 Questions

2012-06-27 Thread Chris Stratton
On Jun 27, 7:51 pm, Nathan nathan.d.mel...@gmail.com wrote: 4. Will it have GPS hardware? Yes, according to the specs in the Google Play devices store I think the one oddity amongst everyday consumer features is that it seems to have a front-facing camera only - fine for video chat but not so

[android-discuss] Re: Android app copy protection

2012-06-12 Thread Chris Stratton
On Jun 12, 8:57 am, John romanmbw...@gmail.com wrote: You can also simply turn on the copy protection when you are publishing the App, Google keeps saying they are going to remove it soon though. It hopefully provides some annoyance to crackers. Which is kind of pointless, as it is easily

[android-discuss] Android App: Tempest RSS Reader

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Cain
Hi I recently wrote a RSS Reader for Android. Please have a look and let me know what you think and what features I should add to make it more competitive. Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=widget.rss -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-security-discuss] Re: how to know if an application is using a specific data

2012-05-01 Thread Chris Stratton
On Apr 30, 12:59 pm, Meryeme Ayache meryemeaya...@gmail.com wrote:          I want to know how do applications work: I mean do they use intents that can be followed to know for example if an application had used a specific data. I mean in general how can we monitor the behavior of data and for

[android-security-discuss] Re: Is it possible that The app does sth and the kernel will not sense it?

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, April 27, 2012 12:13:08 PM UTC-4, MX wrote: From your statement, it seems the kernel has the potential ability to watch all the operations that it wants to. Yes, at the extreme by single stepping through the program and examining the registers and memory state in between.

[android-security-discuss] Re: Is it possible that The app does sth and the kernel will not sense it?

2012-04-26 Thread Chris Stratton
On Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:50:59 AM UTC-4, MX wrote: The operations of reading cache data can 100% be sensed in the Kernel layer? Your line of questioning doesn't really make any sense. Some operations ordinarily involve kernel syscalls, or trigger conditions which the kernel must

[android-discuss] Re: Injecting new code to existing DEX files

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, April 23, 2012 4:39:50 AM UTC-4, atta wrote: I have just started to work on an idea where I'd want to inject some additional cross cutting concerns -- mainly security with some logging -- to an existing APK files. You do realize that anything that uses jni or reflection or even

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Injecting new code to existing DEX files

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, April 23, 2012 11:22:51 AM UTC-4, atta wrote: I understand your point about JNI and reflection. I don't have solution for JNI but for reflection, I think we can use static analyzer to see if it's been used to load certain classes or make calls to certain methods. You might be

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Injecting new code to existing DEX files

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, April 23, 2012 1:39:05 PM UTC-4, atta wrote: Thank you Chris. I understand your points. And they are all valid ones. Custom intents are indeed tricky. I didn't really think about them. But now that I think about that, analysing every startActivity(intent) and startService

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Injecting new code to existing DEX files

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, April 23, 2012 3:06:32 PM UTC-4, atta wrote: By the way, I have assumed that (dalvik) byte code manipulation is the best available way to try to tackle this problem. I have assumed that it won't be possible to do anything at the OS level. Now, I am not an expert on Linux/Anroid

[android-discuss] Re: Design a path pattern

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Stratton
When you mention touching and sliding it sounds like this might be efficiently built on top of box2d, andengine, etc Try checking out the demos for those libraries and see if you see something similar enough to learn from. Alternatively, you can learn abut how to draw graphics and how to

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Design a path pattern

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:50:00 PM UTC-4, vgrazi wrote: You really need to learn the basics before you can try to solve this kind of problem. Do you know any Java - if not you have a long way to go. A contrasting view is that a very effective way to learn quite a bit about both

[android-discuss] Re: Design a path pattern

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:51:57 AM UTC-4, Milon Sarker wrote: I like to draw a pattern like square. in a corner there will be a small ball which can go to other corner. In a single move it can move only one corner. It only stays at the intersection of line of square..How can i design

[android-discuss] Re: sdcard and confidentiality on ASUS eeepad

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Stratton
On Saturday, April 7, 2012 9:25:54 AM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: However, almost all of the apps on the app store demand read and write access to sdcard, and many also want complete internet access. Now quite a few documents are *not* to be made freely available worldwide, such as

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Design a path pattern

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, April 20, 2012 1:36:33 PM UTC-4, Tim in Boulder wrote: On 4/20/2012 11:20 AM, Chris Stratton wrote: When you mention touching and sliding it sounds like this might be efficiently built on top of box2d, andengine, etc Even simpler for a beginner would be a library like Moai [1

[android-security-discuss] Re: Retreiving Data from /dbdata/databases/com.android.browser/browser2.db

2012-04-19 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, April 13, 2012 9:19:00 PM UTC-4, Meryeme wrote: I was making some researches and I found out that we can get the bookmarks website from /data/databases/com.android.browser/browser2.db I don't think you are supposed to be able to access that, unless you are the author and thus

[android-discuss] Re: $32,000 Android App?

2012-04-19 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, April 16, 2012 11:45:10 PM UTC-4, Alan Halls wrote: I asked a company to put together an app that would connect to the wowza RTMP server to stream content similar to the Khan Academy app on the Ipad (without the running transcript) We have a monthly subscription for watching

[android-discuss] Re: $32,000 Android App?

2012-04-19 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, April 16, 2012 11:45:10 PM UTC-4, Alan Halls wrote: Not having ever done a mobile app myself, I don’t have the right answers to the questions and so am going to others in the industry like you guys to see if I am getting ripped off or if the developer knows things I don’t and it

[android-discuss] Re: ornery device

2012-04-19 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, April 13, 2012 9:57:43 AM UTC-4, bob wrote: Has anyone seen the situation in Eclipse where the File Explorer window refuses to display anything? I am seeing this with one particular Android device. If I do an adb shell to that device, I see that it is displaying the

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Stratton
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:49:05 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: Or android itself would have to make that distinction for it, and each user-app pair would effectively have to have its own userid. That at least should be possible with platform-only changes. The app database would need a

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Stratton
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:38:49 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: Instead of a user-id belonging to a human user, a user-id belong to an application. So even if they implemented ~ as a home directory (which they may well do), it wouldn't deal with my case. The more significant consequence

[android-discuss] Android Widget Feedback

2012-03-28 Thread Chris Cain
Hi I have recently launched Tempest RSS on the Play Store. I am interested in some feedback on how I can improve this widget and what features you would be interested in. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=widget.rss -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-03-28 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:43:43 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a new android transformer. I'd like to share it with my wife. Not that it's multiuser in the sense that we can both use it simultaneously, but rather that when I use it, I'd have my identity, and she'd have hers. Or

[android-discuss] Re: Android and the Job Market

2012-03-08 Thread Chris Stratton
On Thursday, March 8, 2012 10:36:37 AM UTC-5, Veronica wrote: I am working on hiring developers who have experience in Android development. I'm finding it a challenge. I understand that's a relatively new technology so the employee pool is still growing. Unless you are in a situation

[android-security-discuss] Re: Extended security permissions

2012-03-07 Thread Chris Stratton
On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 10:47:54 AM UTC-5, Earlence wrote: - protect our application from being deleted by user. if the phone is rooted, anyone can delete your application. you are better off having a custom android build with these features in a special system app with the required

[android-security-discuss] Re: Question on controlling access to a specific user developed library

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, March 5, 2012 12:21:56 PM UTC-5, Harsha Joshi wrote: So there isnt a user defined permission that can be created for this?. basically when the application is launched the user is prompted with a message saying this application is using so and so feature. Similar to the

[android-security-discuss] Re: Question on controlling access to a specific user developed library

2012-03-02 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, March 2, 2012 12:52:27 AM UTC-5, Harsha Joshi wrote: hi i am developing a native library. Proving a JNI wrapper and then a java API library on top of it for app developers. However i want to control the permissions as to who has to access it. Basically i want to verify that

[android-security-discuss] Re: how to know the release date of the apk file?

2012-03-01 Thread Chris Stratton
On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:53:46 PM UTC-5, michael wrote: the classes.dex file is not visible only through the zip folder Actually it is visible if you correctly parse the zip file that is an apk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android

[android-discuss] Re: Native application development

2012-01-31 Thread Chris
On Jan 30, 10:18 pm, Keith leftcont...@gmail.com wrote: I use a laptop So, I guess this means there is no way to develop apps directly on an Android device yet. Presumably, one would have to port over the java compiler which produces Dalvik bytecode, have a text editor and some way to launch

[android-discuss] Native application development

2012-01-29 Thread Chris
I'm curious, is there a reasonable way to develop Android applications directly on an Android device (editor, compiler, debugger, IDE, etc.) without using a PC? What is the preferred approach, favorite software and what sort of problems are associated with it? (for those of us who like to write

[android-security-discuss] Re: Application Signature Verification

2012-01-26 Thread Chris Stratton
On Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:09:25 PM UTC-5, Oleg Gryb wrote: You're absolutely right, there is no any reason to discuss that. It just some opinions were rather unusual in my view and I wanted to understand why. I should admit that still don't have an answer for that why question.

Re: [android-security-discuss] disk encryption time

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Palmer
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Tai Nguyen tainguye...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know why it take so long ( hour) to turn on data encrypt in HoneyComb? Does it really take that much time to enable dm-crypt? It takes that much time to encrypt your data and copy it into the new dm-crypt

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: NTT Docomo (Japanese mobile career0 send IMEI always in video/audio player.

2011-10-22 Thread Chris Palmer
On Oct 22, 2011, at 6:36 AM, Kevin Veroneau wrote: Wouldn't it be more secure if they hashed the imei before placing it into the header? This way a unique hash can be used as an authentication key. Hashes are more difficult to match. Or to make it more difficult, slit the imei into 2,

Re: [android-discuss] NEWBIE needs help

2011-10-04 Thread Chris Cullington-Johnson
...* */* /application Post this into the android-dev group for more assistance. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Chris Cullington-Johnson chriscj...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers TreKing, I will post to correct group. And am currently trying your suggestion. Am I right in saying i have to include

[android-discuss] NEWBIE needs help

2011-09-28 Thread Chris Cullington-Johnson
I have just joined the Android World and am lovn it, however having a bit of trouble with some of the tutorials, in particular the Hello Tab Widget one. Particular part states Notice that this doesn't use a layout file. Just create a

Re: [android-discuss] NEWBIE needs help

2011-09-28 Thread Chris Cullington-Johnson
wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Chris Cullington-Johnson chriscj...@gmail.com wrote: I don't fully understand how to add the corresponding activity/ tags in manifest file A) For developer issues, post to the Android Developers group. This one is for general discussion and you'll

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: Protecting Data in Android 2.x devices

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Palmer
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:53 PM, James Burns jfbu...@gmail.com wrote: This is not the same as data at rest encryption but rather relies on the Android (Linux) OS access control restrictions. accessed / available only by the main user login information implies that the user credentials are

[android-discuss] Re: Best T-Mobile Phone

2011-09-09 Thread Chris
Its ok. Fast, but adb and it disagree often. Also its asmp, considering GB doesn't really take advantage of smp its underwhelming. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: OCSP/CRL support during SSL

2011-09-08 Thread Chris Palmer
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:33 AM, nlsp niels.po...@gmail.com wrote: This boils down to whether it is okay to prioritize availability over security. Availability is a security guarantee just like confidentiality or integrity. Still, the actual question remains: does the android browser support

Re: [android-discuss] Best T-Mobile Phone

2011-09-07 Thread Chris
Get a Sensation and unlock it. HTC will unlock your bootloader, just flash a Sense-less ROM. Or install another home app. Or wait for the next Nexus and hope it comes on TMO. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To view this

[android-discuss] Re: How to:Hyperlink Inside the Dialogue Box Message

2011-08-31 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:00:48 AM UTC-4, softy wrote: Hi, How can I make a text clickable(hyperlinked) in the dialogue box. Something like: StringBuilder msg = new StringBuilder(); msg.append(http://www.google.com;); final SpannableString string = new

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: OCSP/CRL support during SSL

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Palmer
Having OCSP/CRL will help. Actually, that is not at all clear. http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/websec/current/msg00296.html Compound the generally low reliability and performance of CAs' OCSP and CRL endpoints, multiply that times

[android-discuss] Re: Is Jfreechart engine Suitable for Android Chart?

2011-08-30 Thread Chris
AChartEngine (achartengine.org) is good. Supports stacked bar charts, and is open source (Apache 2.0 license). Hope that helps, - C -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To view this discussion on the web visit

[android-security-discuss] Re: How does Android EditText store the content internally

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Stratton
On Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:53:12 PM UTC-4, KK wrote: I have an android EditText which holds a password. I have to retrieve this in one of my modules and pass it to another. I am calling EditText.getEditableText and encrypting its content. But I want to know if android creates any

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: Android2.2-2.3 exploit

2011-08-25 Thread Chris Palmer
Since when did 56% of an install base become retrocomputing? https://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html If you have the ability to patch your 2.2, and if you care about security, then you might as well patch up to 2.3.4. -- You received this message because you

Re: [android-discuss] Sudden drop in app ranking after pushing an update

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Lang
This is something we have faced in Internet marketing since the beginning (1999 for me). I can't offer my app platform or any of my IM products in another language not because of the translation, but because of the fact I can't deliver tech support in that language. To get around this, I am

[android-security-discuss] Re: Cannot find the socket() and connection() system call when stracing the Kernel of Android OS

2011-08-19 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, August 19, 2011 1:17:52 PM UTC-4, michael wrote:Hi, all, I did a lot of search about this, and still no clue about why I cannot find the system calls socket() and connect() in the log of strace of Android applications, like Dropbox trace below: Well, first, use the adb shell to

Re: [android-discuss] Curious reaction from my users

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Lang
My question is why would the app use the load balancing, that should be happening at the server end, not on the app side. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: Privilege Escalation Damage Reduction?

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Palmer
On Aug 15, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Earlence wrote: Rodrigo: true. But this will be helpful in curbing malware. Even after the device has been rooted, setuid HAS to be called to elevate. Therefore, this should prevent that. No, this is not true. For example, if you exploit a bug in the kernel, your

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Google acquiring Motorola

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, August 15, 2011 2:08:11 PM UTC-4, CyberQat wrote: 30% chance Apple or one of the other handset makers screams anti-trust, justified or not... AFAIK, Apple is free to ship Android handsets with Bing search widgets front and center on the home screen. -- You received this

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: how to implement the permission checks on Native C?

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, August 9, 2011 5:22:25 AM UTC-4, patrick Immling wrote: where exactly is this patched call on socket? Somewhere in this forum I found it said on af_inet.c But I dont find this file in any of my sources... :(

Re: [android-security-discuss] Dalvik support for Kerberos (v5) ?

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Palmer
On Aug 9, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Thomas Hardjono wrote: One of the things we need to learn about is the privilges-model used in Android. Well, it's actually pretty simple: each application is sandboxed in its own UID, and then sharing is explicitly and minimally re-enabled through rich,

[android-security-discuss] Re: how to trace the network related system calls in android emulator

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Stratton
On Sunday, August 7, 2011 3:12:21 PM UTC-4, michael wrote: I am doing a project about android security, and using the following commands to trace the system calls: strace -e trace=network but it gives me the errors: segmentation error. Obviously that's not the full command - what

[android-security-discuss] Re: Spoofing System Services of Android

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, August 5, 2011 7:12:31 AM UTC-4, Earlence wrote: No one can replace the android system services since they reside in services.jar which is on /system. Hence, not possible to spoof these services and steal your information. At best, it's not possible to do that while the

Re: [android-security-discuss] Native Exploit

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Stratton
On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 4:01:39 AM UTC-4, patrick Immling wrote: @Chris: So the ONLY way exploits gets into the Android is by means of Apps. No, not at all. Most are initially done using adb. A few have been done via web pages and the like. Or to elaborate, even native exploits

Re: [android-security-discuss] Native Exploit

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Stratton
On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 4:13:21 AM UTC-4, patrick Immling wrote: Ok 'mount' via terminal gives permission denied. seems good In this case, probably yes. But permission denied is one of the few error messages some versions of the android toolbox package knows, and it uses it for almost

[android-security-discuss] Re: Native Exploit

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, August 2, 2011 4:12:02 AM UTC-4, patrick Immling wrote: And the way to break down the Android is to rip through the security barrier by means of a privilege escalation. That's the part that's supposed to be hard. Deploying and executing arbitrary unprivileged code isn't

[android-discuss] Re: Enabling root permissions/functioanlities from the Android application or a folder in Android filesystem with default Permission

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:39:36 AM UTC-4, Jessica wrote: *Other way round for this problem is -- Is there any folder in the android file system where i could create a database(sqlite) and do the file operation(read write ) in this case I dont have to enable the chmod permission .* Yes,

[android-security-discuss] Re: displaying internal PDF assets

2011-07-22 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, July 18, 2011 11:15:24 AM UTC-4, rbastic wrote: Everything works fine if I push the PDF files to the sdcard, but that is not desirable for security purposes. I would like to keep the PDFs packaged inside the app and only expose access to them when necessary. You should be aware

Re: [android-security-discuss] Killing an App from Kernel

2011-07-18 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, July 18, 2011 6:45:47 AM UTC-4, tera tellence wrote: But I guess this function is pretty restricted. I am looking for something that would kill ANY App from the linux kernel(in say native code). How can I do this? The same way you would on any other linux, similarly requiring

Re: [android-security-discuss] Multiple Signatures and Shared UIDs

2011-06-25 Thread Chris Palmer
By having the application and the content packages use the same sharedUserId, the Java classes contained in the content packages are available to be directly used by the application.  However, in order to be able to install two APKs wishing to use the same sharedUserId, they must have common

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Got to love those users

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Lang
There needs to be a mark as spam and mark as incorrect on Market comments. There is on Buzz, why not in the Market? Or have I missed something? There are a whole slew of competitors that post this kind of crap just to lower your rankings. All my clients that have successful high traffic apps go

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Samsung Tab 10.1 good for development?

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Lang
Cheaper too, just took a good look at one, what cell network supports it? Like Verizon for XOOM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

Re: [android-security-discuss] SELinux on Android

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Palmer
There might be an oppy to use selinux to make android more impervious to malware in general (departing from the app-based discussion for a moment). With selinux you can lock down the rights of every daemon to do only what it explicitly needs to do in order to function. So an exploit in one

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Lang
at the start. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:32:01 -0700 Chris Lang wrote: Nothing new, waste of time to complain about it, it is simply digital sales on the web. Interesting stuff I hope, but no solutions for you, except

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Lang
Sorry about the sig file, I am taking that down now, wont' happen again. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [android-security-discuss] SELinux on Android

2011-06-18 Thread Chris Palmer
Also, as on the Internet, it's up to the individual apps to protect themselves, rather than the infrastructure providing systemic safeguards. And they can, and do. But, the easiest way to make sure only authorized callers invoke your IPC endpoints is to declare in your Manifest that all

Re: [android-security-discuss] SELinux on Android

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Palmer
SELinux implements mandatory access control, which provides more fine-grained control than UID/GID-based permissions.  Processes have security contexts associated with them, and detailed policies describe what those processes can and cannot do -- everything from file system access control to

Re: [android-security-discuss] SELinux on Android

2011-06-16 Thread Chris Palmer
We're conducting a research project at Virginia Tech this summer to add SELinux into the Android distro.  This would go beyond the some of the previous work into actually extending Binder to pass the appropriate security context information to SELinux for application policy enforcement.  I'm

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-16 Thread Chris Lang
for you, except make sure there is an email and phone number for contact all over your sites and products. Chris Lang Founder and CEO at Gadget MVP http://www.gadgetmvp.com On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Felipemnoa felipem...@yahoo.com wrote: It would be great to learn from one or two of your

Re: [android-discuss] Google Checkout Outage

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Lang
on Google and all payment systems, but don't make it seem like they are the only ones who experience outages. regards, Chris Lang Gadget MVP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss

Re: [android-security-discuss] [android-s​ecurity-di​scuss] android kernel rootkit detection

2011-06-13 Thread Chris Palmer
Is it possible to detecting kernel level rootkit without root permission? Perhaps you could detect the most incompetent kernel rootkits that way. It would probably be more work that it was worth, though. (Consider that an honest kernel can, by design and as a feature, hide information from

Re: [android-discuss] Is there a way to limit who may download your app on the Android Market?

2011-06-12 Thread Chris Lang
and you could control users that way. There are even more options, but these are the easiest. Chris Lang Gadget MVP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com

[android-discuss] Free app not available in some countries

2011-06-07 Thread Chris Stewart
through the Android Market. With the recent Console changes from I/O, I have both All Countries and Rest of the world, except for checked but no countries checked in the except for area. As far as I can tell, I should be available everywhere. Any suggestions? -- Chris Stewart -- You received

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Are Android tablet apps dead?

2011-06-07 Thread Chris Stewart
, but mostly to thumb through Flipboard. -- Chris Stewart On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, June 3, 2011 3:46:49 PM UTC-4, Christer Nordvik wrote: You have the back navigation in the lower left corner. Being right handed, I personally prefer soft

[android-discuss] Re: Free app not available in some countries

2011-06-07 Thread Chris Stewart
://market.android.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: Recently I've had people from various countries emailing me to say that my app is showing as not available in their country

[android-discuss] Re: Are Android tablet apps dead?

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, June 3, 2011 3:46:49 PM UTC-4, Christer Nordvik wrote: You have the back navigation in the lower left corner. Being right handed, I personally prefer soft buttons on the lower right, ie Cyanogen Gingerbread + tablet tweaks with buttons on left unchecked. Well, I'd really prefer

Re: [android-discuss] One Million Active Installs!

2011-06-05 Thread Chris Lang
I would still like a link to your app, maybe I missed it. I searched it by name and it did not show by the name you mentioned in Market results - Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email

Re: [android-discuss] One Million Active Installs!

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Lang
Do you have a link for you app? I searched it on the Android Market and found nothing like it. Also have you added ads to this app? You should monetize this. regards, Chris Lang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Lodsys is coming after Android developers now. Any direction from Google?

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Lang
Google's and more. Chris Lang Founder and CEO at Gadget MVP On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Technogasms technoga...@gmail.com wrote: The main patent at issue is U.S. Patent #7,222,078. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmr=1f

Re: [android-discuss] Giving away a free copy of your app.

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, May 30, 2011 8:45:58 AM UTC-4, OMA wrote: Just upload the APK somewhere in your website (maybe a private area) and then give him/her a link to that. Just by downloading it from an Android tablet will bring a popup to install the APK. That's way better than sending the APK through

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Lodsys is coming after Android developers now. Any direction from Google?

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Lang
advice on legal matters from a lawyer. Cheap too Chris Lang CEO at Gadget MVP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [android-discuss] Re: More Got to love those users.

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Lang
Yes, always be positive, most times this makes the malicious poster look bad and you look like the nice guy. Really great point there John! regards, Chris Lang CEO at Gadget MPV -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post

Re: [android-discuss] Speaking of Foreign Language Spam

2011-05-29 Thread Chris Lang
thread, returns a be with you soon reply and stores everthing for me so I can look back and build better help files and instructions. Only way to go guys, allows me to outsource support too if I need to regards, Chris Lang Founder and CEO at Gadget MVP -- You received this message because you

Re: [android-discuss] hey

2011-05-24 Thread Chris
This is actually very thoughtful spam. The website in the link even uses your current location to make it sound like one of your neighbors that has been getting rich quick. Maybe we should threaten to take this group over to yahoo-groups. Would you give a crap then, Google? No. Didn't

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Private enterprise Android market

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, May 23, 2011 3:01:42 PM UTC-4, OMA wrote: Nobody knows about this? (private Android market) I expect it should not be too hard to find someone willing to develop one for you. But the problem is that you haven't really thought through how it should work. Do you just want to

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Private enterprise Android market

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Stratton
Just send them an email with a link to the apk on your corporate server. If you want, have the server make them go through a login or only serve over your vpn or coporate wifi. Or have your app periodically check the server. As long as you are willing (and able) to check allow non-market

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Private enterprise Android market

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Becker
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Octavio Molano Anta octavio.mol...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/23 Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com snip The method you mention should be enough. I can just make an intranet page linked in the tablet desktop containing a link to the APK file (in case a new version

[android-discuss] Re: USB Network Card

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Stratton
On Monday, May 16, 2011 10:55:27 PM UTC-4, Michael Leung wrote: Last week, I bought Acer Iconia. I will work in some area. There are no wifi. I need to use Ethernet and found there are some USB Network Card in eBay. Does anyone try that? If you get one that's known to work well with a

Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: Secure Android apps necessarily native?

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Palmer
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Twinkie ns1...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to find a whitepaper/online article/book to bolster my argument that an All-Dalvik app is as good security-wise as an app with sensitive logic hidden in native code. Some of my favorite examples of why native code

Re: [android-discuss] LG -P920 3D phone

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Becker
the problem. Don't know if that route will help or not, but may be worth a shot. ~Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

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