Month: September 2019

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Goodbye OpenGL, welcome Vulkan!

Some of my Android works is OpenGL ES 2.0 based. In the last time, I focused on other technologies and apps. OpenGL ES 2.0 is one of my favourites libraries, but I have to admit that it has some limitations, first of all, the constraint to be executed only on a single thread. Nowadays, with…
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What about cyber security

Just a few title, abount WPA2 attack without password: https://medium.com/@adam.toscher/top-5-ways-i-gained-access-to-your-corporate-wireless-network-lo0tbo0ty-karma-edition-f72e7995aef2 https://github.com/edthamm/lootbooty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uqTqJwTFyU&feature=youtu.be&t=22m34s

Webview or Chrome custom tabs?

During my app development on the Android platform, I always used the WebView component. I notice it is a slow component, but it does what it must do. Today I found some useful link about another widget to include web content in my Android app: the Chrome custom tab. I’ve already heard about it, but…
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Kripton ORM: how to generate content provider – example 2

Kripton ORM has a lot of features and simplifies a lot the developer life. If your application needs to expose its database with a content provider, in most case you have to write it. I have already written on this feature, so if you didn’t read it, I suggest you read this post too. Today I take…
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Just some useful links about certificate pinning on Android

For my job, I was looking for some good article about certificate pinning on Android devices. I found these: https://medium.com/@appmattus/android-security-ssl-pinning-1db8acb6621e https://www.netguru.com/codestories/3-ways-how-to-implement-certificate-pinning-on-android If you don’t know what it is Certificate Pinning: Pinning is the process of associating a host with their expected X509 certificate or public key. Once a certificate or public key is known or seen for a host, the certificate or…
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CrystaX: a valid alternative to NDK?

The NDK was the only way that I know to integrate, in Android development, Java and C worlds. Some day ago I found a possible replacemente of NDK: Crystax It seems to have many features that standard NDK does not have. The more important for me: Full support of C locales Full math support, including…
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Kripton ORM: how to store a HashSet in a column

Kripton ORM is the Kripton’s module to manage SQLite database. Store a HashSet in a column is quite easy. Let’s suppose we have a Java model mapped to the SQLite database in the following way: The associated DAO interface: And the database definition: Store a HashSet is simple as define it in the SchoolLunch. Kripton…
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Kripton ORM: reusable generic base DAO interface

This post was inspired by the following question from StackOverflow: Reusable generic base class DAOs with Android Room. I reuse the original question and I try to approach the problem with Kripton. Room’s approach avoids using an ancestor interface for DAO interface to define for the SELECT operations. A parent DAO interface can be used only to define operationINSERT/UPDATE/DELETE but…
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Kripton and SQLite: generate an SQLite based content provider

One of the key features of Kripton ORM is the capability to generate an SQLite content provider starting from a data source definition. More information about Content Provider can found here. Suppose we have in our application a music data source so defined: In this data source, there are Artist and Album entities. Every entity got its DAO interface.…
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Kripton ORM: how to store byte arrays

Stackoverflow is always a good place to get ideas to write posts. Today I answer to this question. The original question is about using Room Library. But I want to change the question: how can I persist a byte array using Kripton ORM Library? With kripton, you can easily manage byte[] fields. Just to show…
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