When handling support requests for some of the Market Apps that I developed I sometimes received the question if an app runs on one device or another. Since most of my apps are designed to run with a minimum of resources it’s enough to know if that device runs Flash or not. Until lately searching [...]
Archive for the ‘Android’ Category
Googles weak Approval Process in the Android Market leads to a new batch of trojans
As several news sources quoted Google had to remove more trojan apps from the Android Market. The trojans were noticed when a developer complained about Google publishing his stole App in the market. Upon analysis they found a new trojan which quickly lead to more findings. Here’s the article: http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/05/security-alert-droiddreamlight-new-malware-from-the-developers-of-droiddream/ It’s really time that Google [...]
Internal processes in the android market
There’s an interessting security related posting that doesn’t just explain how fake Angry Bird levels have been using to install further apps with full system rights – it also explains how the market processes look like: http://blog.duosecurity.com/2011/05/when-angry-birds-attack-android-edition/
How APNDroid got itself kicked out of the Android Market by using Push Ad Spam
Martin Adamek, the author of apddroid, a tool that allows you to quickly change the apn on android devices, got his app removed from the Android Market by Google. How? He added Push Ads from AirPush which sends an Ad once a day to the phone owner – using push messages that don’t seem to [...]
List of currently available ipad/iphone apps/cms systems
A non complete list of cms controlled ipad/iphone magazine apps, aimed at publishers, not users. *1 Android Phones *2 Android Tablets *3 In App Purchases
Google added in app purchase/payment to their Market
Google finally added the long awaited in app purchases to the latest version of their Market. Read more about it on their blog: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-app-billing-launched-on-android.html The article links to an sample app and full developer documentaion of the in app purchase payment process.
Getting phonegap to work with XCode 4
The phonegap installer was written for XCode 3.2 and doesn’t work with XCode 4. The reason is the new template folder layout for XCode 4. To fix this Shazron Abdullah wrote a small script that you can run after installing the 3.2 files. Get it here: http://blogs.nitobi.com/shazron/2011/03/16/creating-a-phonegap-project-from-the-command-line-for-xcode-4/ Edit: The blog seems to be down, but [...]
Mobile multiplatform development solutions for AppStore/StoreKit In App Payments/Abos
Appcelerator Titanium: Yes Appcelerator offers the Titanium+ program. There’s are three versions of this program and you need to chose either the small business or the enterprise versions. After reading complains from many users about high/excessive prices I tried to contact the publishers hoping I would be able to provide you with more detailed informations [...]
Using App2SD for apps that don’t allow it
If you got Flash and AIR running on your phone you will likely be annoyed by the excessive amounts of space those apps take. To make it worse Adobe disabled App2SD for these applications. Here’s a way to install these apps and others that deny you to move them to SD card: 0. You need [...]
Android market error 18 when updating/installing apps
If you got that annoying market error 18 on updates or fresh installs it’s usually SD-Card related. I know of two simple solutions that solved all these cases for me: Solution 1: Disabling the SD-Card before updates/installing The easiest way to solve this is disabling the SD-Card by either removing it – or disabling it [...]