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This week, Ireland introduced a COVID-19 Tracker app. The app uses the Exposure Notification API built by Apple and Google. The app is intended to help contact trace and slow the spread of coronavirus. The app is now available from the App Store and Google Play.
According to the Survey Reports, there are almost 1.84 million apps available on iOS and on Google Play there are 2.9 million apps. However, the usage of mobile applications is increasing constantly. Due to the high demand for Android and iOS applications, it leads mobile app development services to high competition.
In the digital world, mobile app developers don’t only have to focus on the backend and frontend coding process and functionalities. Apart from this, to launch successful apps, they have to be creative and require knowledge about market trends and guidelines.
As of 2019, the number of apps on the Google Play store exceeds 2 million and that on the Apple store stands at 1.83 million. Now, if that is the competition, enterprises looking to cast their mobile apps, ought to do things differently.
Google has announced the expansion of its Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) and introduced its new Developer Data Protection Reward Program (DDPRP). GPSRP is a bug bounty program focused on Google Play in collaboration with HackerOne. DDPRP is a bounty program for Android, OAuth, and the Chrome Extension ecosystem.
Today in a session at Google I/O, Kobi Glick (project manager for Google Play) gave attendees an overview of some of the key updates to the Android App Bundle. These updates include new metrics added to Android vitals, upgraded security features, and options for conditional delivery of application features.
Amazon recently introduced its App Submission API. Through the API, app owners can programmatically update their apps on Amazon's Appstore. This automates previously manual tasks like basic updates, new APKs, and version updates. The API is similar to the submission API used with the Google Play store.
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss Automattic’s quest to create a new service tailored to journalists. We discuss what’s next for Cory Miller as his chapter at iThemes ends later this month. Near the end of the show, we talk about recent leadership changes in the WordPress project and share our opinions of Slack’s new logo.
Embarking On My Next Adventure
WordPress 5.1 Schedule Updates
Expanding WordPress Leadership
How WordPress Knows What Page You’re On
Next Episode: Wednesday, January 23rd 3:00 P.M. Eastern
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I’ve been working with the AS2 Protocol and the AdroitLogic AS2Gateway for quite some time now, and hence, playing with JKS has been a must. One of the tricks that were required from time to time was extracting the private key and public key (certificate) from Java KeyStores. In this blog post, we’ll go through a couple of simple commands on how to do that.
A JKS is an encrypted security file used to store a set of cryptographic keys or certificates in the binary format, and it requires a password to be opened. JKS files are used for a variety of security purposes. They can be used to identify the author of an Android app during a build and when publishing to Android Market in Google Play or in SSL encryption.
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss what’s new in WordPress 5.0.3. We share insight into a new feature in WordPress 5.1 that will protect users from fatal errors or more commonly known as the white screen of death.
We discuss the WordPress Governance Project and WordPress’ leadership overall throughout the past few years. Near the end of the show, we share our opinions on WordPress.com’s new marketing campaign.
WordPress 5.0.3 Maintenance Release
GitHub Announces Free, Unlimited Private Repositories
WordPress 5.1 to Replace “Blogging” References with “Publishing”
WordPress Governance Project Flagged as Unsanctioned, First Meeting Set for January 15
WordPress.com Launches New “Do Anything” Marketing Campaign
Next Episode: Wednesday, January 16th 3:00 P.M. Eastern
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Facebook is on the wrong side of a privacy discussion, again. Privacy International recently published research indicating that almost half of Android apps have the ability to share data with Facebook, ranking Facebook second in third-party tracking on the Google Play store (Google being first). Accordingly, Privacy International chose 34 popular Android apps and analyzed their sharing with Facebook through the Facebook SDK.