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Research conducted by binary-level security and compliance testing company Insignary has found vulnerabilities in one in five Android apps. Insignary tested 700 of the most popular Android apps on the Google Play Store for the research. Their Clarity system was put to work for the first time analysing APKs for known open source vulnerabilities. Here…
GitHub has introduced a new tool it’s calling ‘Learning Lab’ which teaches developers how to collaborate on code using its service. In the company’s own words, “GitHub is more than a home for code. It’s a forum for collaboration, a sandbox for testing, a launchpad for deployment, and often, a platform for learning new skills.”…
The latest Developer Preview of Google's IoT platform Android Things has launched, bringing with it what represents the final API surface before the stable version. During the preview releases of Android Things, Google committed to providing updates every 6-8 weeks – a schedule the company has kept fairly rigidly to. This latest release does not…
Agile is expanding within the enterprise – but there is plenty more that can be done to improve organisational initiatives. That’s the key finding from enterprise software development firm CollabNet. In the company’s latest State of Agile report – the 12th iteration – which collected almost 1,500 responses from various industries in software development, 97%…
Exactly what Google has planned for its Fuschia OS is still murky, but details found in an official programmer’s guide is starting to give us a clearer view. Code for Fuschia has been available on Google Git (and mirrored on GitHub) for some time. A programmer’s guide for it was posted titled ‘The Book: a…
An open source tool for automated deployment monitoring has been launched by Netflix and Google to help other companies modernise their practices. Kayenta is a form of ‘canary analysis’ tool which aims to detect problems before they become a serious issue. Fun fact: Coal miners would once take canaries in cages down into the pits…
Gaming on Android is about to become more impressive once the ‘P’ version of the OS launches with support for the latest Vulkan graphics API. Vulkan started its Android journey on the Galaxy S7 before Google added native support for it in Android Nougat. Many developers still use the OpenGL ES graphics rendering API, but…
Microsoft’s hardware partners are slowly releasing Windows 10 PCs with all-day battery life thanks to Snapdragon processors, and 64-bit apps will be supported. Erin Chappie, General Manager for Windows, confirmed to Engadget that Microsoft will be announcing an SDK for ARM64 apps during this year’s Build developer conference. The conference, as per last year, will…
Email and data security provider Mimecast has rolled out a new application programming interface (API) developer portal to extend business and cyber resilience for email with a constant, scalable and uniform API. The Mimecast API developer portal is already processing a huge number of requests every day and is a key enabler for multiple Mimecast…