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🚨 My #dcldn25 talk is now LIVE 🚨

Going Beyond Obfuscation: Advanced Techniques for Protecting Android Apps

🔗: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=carU3Fghrns

Wrote a quick blog post about the newest AndroidX library 'androidx.text:text-vertical' 📚✨

Learn about the cool functionality this provides and why this is important, particularly if you read Japanese newspapers 🇯🇵📰

#AndroidDev #AndroidX

Just released v1.1.0 of my fork of 'encrypted-shared-preferences'

🚨 This version introduces a breaking change for API 21/22 users due to Tink's latest version bumping the minSdk to 23 🚨

Check out the release notes for more info

https://github.com/ed-george/encrypted-shared-preferences/releases/tag/1.1.0

I am really enjoying using Warp as my daily Terminal

I never thought AI and the terminal would mix, but it's definitely helped improve so much of my workflow 🚀

Highly recommend giving it a try if you haven't already!

https://app.warp.dev/referral/5K65KQ

Looking forward to seeing many of my favourite developers and the wider Google community in Berlin next week!

Hope to see you there 😊

#GoogleIOConnect #BuildWithGemini

My talk from this year's Android Makers in Paris is now available

🗣️ How to keep your app's secrets, secret 🤫

- Learn about how to secure API keys
- Tools and methods to secure your repos
- A couple of recipes you can apply to get secret-free codebases

https://www.droidcon.com/2025/05/10/how-to-keep-your-apps-secrets-secret/

#AndroidDev

A reminder that if you *need* on-going Encrypted Shared Prefs support, I have my own fork that is being maintained with dependency updates and bug-fixes

I have just pushed v1.0.2 this afternoon 🚀

https://github.com/ed-george/encrypted-shared-preferences/releases/tag/1.0.2

In case you missed it, Android apps including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser have been silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes

Disclosure and findings can be found below:
https://localmess.github.io

#AndroidDev #MobileSec

AndroidX Security Crypto got an update yesterday!

Bad news, it's just a version bump to take it out of alpha (and nothing else)

Still totally deprecated 😅 Sorry!

#AndroidDev #MobileSec