Category: Android

As a developer, I had many opportunities to take part in a lot of technical interviews, sitting on both sides of the table. I was the interviewee and interviewer. I’ve been interviewing candidates for companies where I work and helped other companies as part of consulting services. So now...

We can group testing tools into 3 main categories Frameworks Mocks Assertions 1) Frameworks JUnit4 Just good enough to work, without any cool features. Still default in the Android project because the next version (JUnit5) needs Java8, which still isn’t default for Android, because of compile time. JUnit5 This...

You care about your user’s data and you encrypt them. Android provides you Android Keystore to make it easier – great! You also want to help your user migrate the data when he changes the phone or wipes out data. Here also you can use built-in Android Auto Backup...

Lately, in my current project, we had a discussion about the approach to update dependencies. New versions are released – some bugs are fixed, some newly created, sometimes we have breaking changes, sometimes it doesn’t’ change nothing. What, when and how to update? In the ideal world, everything would...

So you thought that your keys generated with an Android Keystore are securely stored in some hardware magic box? Not even close. You can find them on your drive. The headline above is something of a clickbait, but there is a lot of truth in it as well. TL;DR...

Sometimes you have to use the generated password on the device.This is generally not the best approach but if you have to then try to do it as good as it is possible.This is my way to generate a random and quasi secure password on Android: You can ask...