Tips & Tricks
Some short and sweet tips, tricks and best practices for Android development:
More …Autonomous Teams
If you keep an eye on German automotive companies, you will see a pattern. Their software is a huge mess and they have trouble finding and keeping developers, which leads to a high turnover rate, that amplifies existing issues.
More …Security & Pen Tests
The security of a product (backend, iOS and Android app) can be evaluated with penetration tests (often done by specialized companies). Android apps are already protected by the Android Sandbox and critical operations like authentication, authorization and content storage should be done in a secure backend, so critical findings in apps are rare. However pen tests will usually produce common findings, that are the same for most apps.
More …Technical Interviews
Technical interviews have become kind of a meme in the developer community. Especially with Big Tech companies’ extensive focus on niche algorithms and datastructures whiteboard tests, that have no relevance for most developer jobs, but are still copied by non tech companies. This post contains some tips for conducting technical interviews as a developer.
More …Cryptography & Biometrics
Implementing cryptographic operations in Android without a library can be quite confusing, because the API is based on the ancient Java Cryptography Architecture, which was introduced with JDK 1.1. However from a high-level point of view, encrypting and decrypting data in Android is relatively straight forward.
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