Friday, July 31, 2015

Android Studio 1.3 – The best IDE to create apps for Android? – Pplware

The Android Studio is a development platform for Android, created by Google. The platform is similar to the popular Eclipse with ADT Plugin, providing the best tools and functionality to developers. According to Google itself, with Android Studio programming for Android is simpler and faster.

recently was released the Android 1.3 Studio Let’s see what’s new.

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The team responsible for the platform Android Development Studio recently announced a new version that brings a lot of interesting news.

Android Memory (HPROF) Viewer

The Android Studio now lets you capture and memory analysis and the information provided in the native Android HPROF format.

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Allocation Tracker

With the Allocation Tracker you can see the amount of memory allocated to the app being developed

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APK Tests in Modules

For better flexibility in testing the app, is now available a feature that allows you to have the test code in a separate module, so there is no need to change the app code itself.

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SDK Auto Update & amp; SDK Manager

The SDK update and management process will now be integrated with Android Studio.

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Support for C ++

With the Android Studio 1.3 shall be also fully supports the C ++ programming language.

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As mentioned here , compared to eclipse the Android Studio has a more intuitive interface and better organized . In terms of performance, both IDE are quite similar … because we were not we talking about java. Come on schedule and send these aplicacações for Pplware disclose.

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It will be easier to test applications on Android – News Minute to

The public test, one of the most important stages in the development of an application will be even easier thanks to the review of the process by Google.

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The technology of Mountain View now allows developers to share just a link to enable interested parties to begin testing that they are implemented. There is another option to conduct a private beta, sharing the link with users through e-mail.

Thus, it avoids the whole issue and complexity of conducting private testing between groups and grant permissions entries in communities.

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Oracle does not give up claim rights on Android system – SAPO Tek

At issue is a dispute over patents dating back to 2010. The Oracle believes that Google improperly used the Java programming language to build the Android operating system. The giant databases you want to receive from Google royalties, having inherited patents the Java language when it merged with the Sun, while the giant search engine considers that it should be able to use Java without having to pay.

In June, the US Supreme Court disagreed with the closure of the case in favor of Google and referred the case to the Federal Court of San Francisco. In 2012, a jury found that Google infringed on Oracle’s copyright, but came to a halt with regard to what can be considered a fair use of Java in Android.

This Thursday, Judge William Alsup said that after the analysis of the process, there is a range of issues that must be resolved before moving on to a new trial on the fair use and damages resulting therefrom. At issue is the presentation of new documents by Oracle advances the news agency Reuters.

The software maker finds it increasingly impaired, since, since the beginning of this process, ” market position of Android increased substantially. ” Currently, the Android operating system is the market leader in the smartphone segment.

The Oracle sued Google for five years and want compensation of about one billion dollars (912 million euros to 31 exchange July 2015)

The new trial should take place in the spring of 2016, anticipates the Judge Alsup, who advised companies to reach an agreement before that date, through mediation.

Google attorney Robert Van Nest, believes that mediation would be “premature”, however, the judge was adamant and ordered the company to solve the issue through mediation “whether they like it or not like it.”

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Blackphone 2 official Android as safe for professionals – Tudocelular.com

Let there, first, I do not I said that does not handle virus, I said I do not conheço ninguà © m that has caught virus proven, São different things. Second, the fact of disappearing icons, and catch will depend on what the creature install on your computer, there is seen windows 7 for example, you format and 1 week after tá undermined crap, why? because usuário installs everything and click all that appears, screwing the system. third, over 20 of your friends, how many had bank account hacked? cellular data stolen? Vulnerável all sà £ o, problem à © that make a storm in glass of water.

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Volkswagen starts selling cars in the US Androit Auto – Globo.com

Volkswagen will begin selling cars in the US with Android Auto, version of its mobile operating system made for cars. In practice, it allows control on the dashboard tools of an Android phone system, which is most in the world, and thus prevent the driver has to take the machine to perform any function.

The German automaker is the first major to adopt the Androi Auto for most of its models for sale in the US; Hyundai also offers, but for now, only the Sonata in 2015.

Gradually, the “rival” Car Play, Apple, the maker of the iPhone, also is being adopted by automakers. Honda announced on the last Thursday (27) that the 2016 Accord will be compatible with both the Car Play as with Android Auto.

At Volkswagen in the US, only Touareg and Eos will not have the system. The Android Auto will be offered in the following versions of the following models:
– CC: all model versions 2016
– Beetle: SE, R-Line (SE), SEL and R-Line (SEL) , coupe and convertible model in 2016
– Golf: S, S / w Sunroof, SE, and SEL model 2016
– Golf GTI: all model settings 2016
– Golf SportWagen: all template settings 2016
– Golf R: all model settings 2016
– e-Golf (electric): All template settings 2016
– Jetta TSI / TDI: with S Tech system, SE, SE to Connectivity, Sport, SEL and SEL Premium
– Jetta GLI / Hybrid: all model settings 2016
– Tiguan R-Line, SE and SEL model in 2016

In addition to the factory-installed systems, some brands already offer Android and Apple Auto Car Play on multimedia stations to be installed after car purchase:. Pioneer and Kenwood

The accession of carmakers must increase soon, with vehicles from General Motors, owner of Chevrolet, and Audi, Volvo and Kia. At the time of launch Android Auto, for example, Google said it had signed agreement with 40 brands of cars.

There is still no estimated arrival of the systems in cars produced in Brazil.

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

New flaw in Android makes inoperable devices – Pplware

The Android back to being under fire. After a few days of being known a serious security flaw that can be easily exploited, and the attacker only needs to know the mobile number, has now discovered a new flaw that allows can leave a terminal inoperable.

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While the baptized vulnerability Stagefright affected 95% of all Android with version between 2.2 and 5.1, this new vulnerability only affects devices with Android 4.3 and higher (corresponding to about 56.8%).

According to researchers from Trend Micro, this new vulnerability (which still has no name) is associated with Android MediaServer and can be exploited in two ways.

The first is by installing a malicious application on the device that you want attack containing an altered MKV file. The second way is by going to a malicious site that has also an MKV embedded with malicious code.

Then, when the MediaServer tries to process the media files malicious MKV, the system becomes unstable and may even collapse (not responding to any action), forcing the user to reboot the system.

The vulnerability is Caused by an integer overflow When the MediaServer service parses an MKV file. It reads out of buffer memory or writes data to address NULL When parsing audio data

So far there is no information from Google regarding this vulnerability.

Via TrendMicro

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‘Angry Birds 2′ has come to Android – News Minute to

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The wait is over for fans of ‘Angry Birds’ once again title of the series has reached the Play Store.

For now, ‘Angry Birds 2 are only available in the online store Google and therefore only on Android operating systems.

It is expected, however, that the arrival of the iOS devices happens over the next few days.

Although appear to be the second title in the series, ‘Angry Birds 2′ is actually the 12th game of Rovio series with various themed versions released though.

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Angry Birds 2 available for Android and iOS – Pplware

It was the most famous play “casual” in the world … at times. Played by young and old, Angry Birds has become an addiction. With several sagas derived from the main game, Rovio was “entertaining” players on mobile devices until the game stopped being interesting.

But there was the promise that the new version of Angry Birds was in the oven and as such, fulfilling what he had promised, Rovio has launched Angry Birds 2 for iOS and Android.

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The gameplay is better, the effects are more polite but the rest is as we know, although the levels begin to have an effect … on exaggeration!

actions of “destruction” are more advanced, more effects “touch” that can add some flexibility to the way we play.


In terms of graphics, the game is substantially better, but it must Breakfast is also hardware that has evolved considerably, now allowing a visual reliability when using the “effects” technicians of thrown weapons.

Of course, at this distance, yes, because the original game came out in 2009 after We had the Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Friends, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Star Wars, Angry Birds Go !, Angry Birds Transformers, Angry Birds Angry Birds Fight !, Stella, and others who’m not remember … and much is already used now that compiled in one.

At the bottom … the former did not have a number, because if it did, this would be “Prai” Angry Birds 12 …

Located in history as one of the best-selling games worldwide for mobile devices but is getting a little worn. In any case, and as is free, enjoy, play this holiday!

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

WhatsApp for Android ‘middle finger’ comes in various skin tones – Globo.com

The controversial emoji of “middle finger” is being released to all users of WhatsApp on Android . An application update to the Google platform released the icon. The update also includes two emojis with same-sex couples holding hands.

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An update of WhatsApp last week released the support emoji, but it was necessary that users copiassem it from somewhere and colassem the application message window. With the latest version of the program, it appears as a normal emoji keyboard in the list.

The release of “middle finger” happens gradually. Initially, it appears to users who downloaded the update directly from the official site. It is expected that it also appears in the store Google Play Store soon.

Besides being necessary to download the update , you also need a keyboard layout on the phone compatible with the “middle finger”.

TechTudo could play the emoji keyboard with the natives of the Moto X second-generation and Galaxy S5 . The experiment did not work with a 2013 Moto X running Google’s own keyboard.

With the new, the emoji also allows the selection of different skin tones, as in the screenshot that illustrates this text. There are six different options, as well as other icons that replicate people or parts of the human body.

Via Android Police

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Bug found in Android system may affect up to 1 billion … – BBC Brazil

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Experts say the problem affects a wide range of phones with Android system

A bug discovered in the Android operating system may have left about 1 billion phones vulnerable to hacker attacks, researchers say.

system failure could be exploited every time someone sent a message of photo or video to a smartphone.

Google said it fixed the problem, but that millions of devices need to upgrade your software.

The failure, the researchers said, was “extremely dangerous.”

It allowed hackers to send malicious code within a multimedia message that could access a service within the Android called Stagefright

After the Stagefright be activated. – even without the action of the cell owner in this sense – other applications or device data could be accessed by malicious code

“These vulnerabilities. are extremely dangerous because it does not need any victim of action to be explored, “wrote the researchers, the American company that specializes in Zimpherium security.

For them, this is the most serious ever recorded Android vulnerability and affected 950 million handsets

Read more:. How to protect the avalanche of virus in cell

The researchers will reveal more details about this flaw in Android at a security conference in Las Vegas next week.

James Lyne, director of global research at security company Sophos, said the vulnerability affects a “wide range” of phones that use Android from version 2.2.

“In some devices, this vulnerability meant that responsible for the attack could access all kinds of content on the device or access features such as the camera,” he said.

The Zimpherium, in turn, notified Google, which then produced an update to fix the problem.

However, millions of devices are still without this update as manufacturers and mobile operators need to distribute these updates and users can manually reject updates

Read more:. Hacker invades cell implanted chip in the hands

“This vulnerability has been identified in a laboratory setting (using) devices with Android more old and, to our knowledge, no one has been affected, “Google said in a statement

The company said it will provide protection mechanisms in open source soon

Read more..: virus causes cell take secret photo every 2 seconds and creates 3D

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Google has a solution to the MMS security hole in Android – Pplware

The discovery of Stagefright, a very serious problem affecting the Android came alert the community to the vulnerability that exists in this service and in particular on Android.

But Google, responsible for Android, decided deal with the problem immediately and has already being prepared the security updates for its Nexus devices.

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The Stagefright affects all versions of Android and why it is considered one of the biggest security problems affecting this operating system.

With a simple MMS attackers can run malicious code on any Android device, after having access to any information of users.

The problem lies in the fact that Android processing the contents so the message is received, creating thumbnail images and videos, without the user having to even download these contents.

So that was made public Google recognized the problem and indicated that it would begin the process correction of the same.

These corrections have already been sent to the company’s partners and prepare now to be launched for Google devices, the Nexus.



This vulnerability was identified in a laboratory setting on older Android devices, and the far as we know, no one Has Been affected. As soon as we Were made aware of the vulnerability we redbourn immediate action to fix and sent to our partners to protect users …

The part of the regularly scheduled security update, we plan to push further safeguards to Nexus devices starting next week. And, we’ll be releasing it in open source When the details are made public by the researcher at BlackHat.

It is expected that over the next week appears an update on Nexus that will solve the Stagefright, included in normal security improvements the company releases.

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Google will launch later this hotfix to the Android Open Source Project (ASOP), to be incorporated into future updates and for other distributions can also incorporate.

In addition to the Google also other companies are already solving the Stagefright. The Cyanogen announced it will launch this weekend updates for your ROMs to remedy the problem.

The Stagefright is one of the most serious problems that have emerged in recent times. With a simple MMS any smartphone is compromised.

Even with these updates released by Google and other manufacturers, thousands of devices and users will be disadvantaged by not going to have access to them.

The Android fragmentation remains their biggest problem and it is in these situations that manifests and shows their impact.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Motorola offers Android 5.1 kernel source code for … – Tudocelular.com

Motorola launched the new Moto G 2015 Moto X Moto X Play and Style, but has not forgotten the predecessors, at least in the category software. The manufacturer is known to hold updated launched devices for some time. After releasing the Android 5.1 Lollipop officially for the Moto X 2014 during the month of May, now is the time to make life easier for enthusiastic users and independent developers.

The Android 5.1.1 kernel source code Lollipop for the last generation of the Moto X (Victara) is now available on the pages of GitHub, it displays the image below. With this attitude the Motorola opens the door for developers to create new ROMs based on the new version of the operating system green little robot. These independent versions bring features not found in the official solution and are generally used by many enthusiastic users.

With the arrival of the new generation of Moto line of devices the previous models may turn out to be a good choice, with more attractive prices and still sufficient resources for most users. And with the availability of updated versions of Android, things get even more interesting.

It’s only a matter of time until the XDA forum and other channels are filled with ROMs like CyanogenMod, option of bringing more choice for users of Moto X 2014. And you think to perform an upgrade to the new Moto X Play and Style, or considers sufficient previous generation for a few more months?

(updated July 28, 2015, at 19:35)

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950 million Android devices are at risk due to … – IGN Portugal

Users of Android operating system should be alert to any message they receive video and it disappears suddenly.

A group of researchers Zimperium Mobile Security revealed the flaw in the operating system along with the news that 950 million devices are currently vulnerable to attack.

The attack an affected by this failure device is so simple that the only thing the offender needs is the victim’s phone number. Even more problematic is the fact that there needs to be any action on the device itself. After sending the video message with the exploit , various parts of the device such as the microphone, the camera and bluetooth, are fully available to the offender.

“Contrary to does the spear-fishing , where the victim must open a PDF file or a link sent by the offender, this vulnerability can be activated while you are sleeping, “we read in the Zimperium report. “Before you wake up, the offender removes any device runway have been compromised and you will continue your day normally. – But with a vulnerable phone”

Any Android device with a higher version than 2.2 is vulnerable, but those who have a version prior to 4.2 are those most at risk.

The company will share more details on Black Hat and DEFCON conference in August. However, already sent some correction updates the problem for Google, but said that is only “the beginning of what will be a long process.”




Pedro Ferreira is passionate about everything sport, Linkaholic , content producer IGN Portugal and a social animal in his spare time. You can follow him onpedro_scb

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