Solving The Android Permissions And Malware Puzzle

By Shantanu Goel in Android on 14 Aug, 2010

There has been a spate of security reports recently about Android apps being malware or suspicious. Most of these were found baseless but at least one was indeed correct (e.g. The Russian Trojan app). We also know that Android has a very good security model but even then, the rest of the reports also makes

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Android Dev Tip: App Not Showing on X10 Mini Marketplace

By Shantanu Goel in Android , Programming , Tips on 08 Aug, 2010

Many Android Developers (and users) get confused that why a certain app isn’t showing up on the new Xperia X10 Mini (and few other) phones. This happens even if they support all android versions and have published their apps for all countries, so that shouldn’t be the issue. I came across this as well when

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SSH Tunneling On Android

By Shantanu Goel in Android , Tips on 02 Aug, 2010

If you want to have a secure browsing environment or just want to access your home network securely without exposing extra services to the internet and without the mess that comes with setting up and maintaining a VPN server, ssh tunneling is your rescuer. In this post, I’ll tell you how to setup an ssh

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Camera LED As Flashlight on Non-Rooted Android Phones

By Shantanu Goel in Android , Software on 30 Jul, 2010

We all know that Android does not allow the camera LED to be controlled directly from apps and hence, you cannot use the camera LED as a Torch or Flashlight unless you are rooted. There are many flashlight apps on the Android Market Place but none of them will work for you if you don’t

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Android App Wi-Fi Keep Alive updated to 1.4.1

By Shantanu Goel in Android , Programming , Projects , Software on 22 Jul, 2010

Update: Made a minor update for a small bug that can make wi-fi keep reconnecting in quick succession.

Pushed out a new update to my Android App Wi-Fi Keep Alive today. This update brings in another work around for the issue where the wi-fi is alive on the phone and it is also connected to

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Android App: Wi-Fi Keep Alive Updated to 1.2.0

By Shantanu Goel in Android , Projects , Software on 04 Jul, 2010

Just finished uploading the new version 1.2.0 of my android app Wi-Fi Keep Alive to the Android market. This version has a lot of optimizations and also a few workarounds to overcome the issues few guys were facing with Android’s in-built handling of wi-fi sleep policies. Please check out the Wi-Fi Keep Alive Home Page

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