Category: Android

  • PSA: Security of Folder Downloader for Dropbox

    I received this inquiry via email: Could this app leak my Dropbox password? With the recent news that 6.9million Dropbox passwords have been stolen, I am now wondering how secure this app is. I think it’s better to repost my answer here, with some additional information for semi-technical people. The app does not know your…

  • Google vs Everyone Else

    Yep. Another Android-related post. Devices may only be distributed if all Google Applications […] are pre-installed on the Device. The parties will create an open environment for the Devices by making all Android Products and Android Application Programming Interfaces available and open on the Devices and will take no action to limit or restrict the…

  • The UX Collective Culture

    When you design a UX, you try to guide the user through your machine’s interface in the most obvious and predictable way. Most UX/UI must make assumptions on what the user knows and what she doesn’t know. It’s a tradeoff between beginners and experts. There are, however, different levels of preexisting knowledge you can expect…

  • Google vs Samsung, Nexus Edition

    Excellent Ars Technica article: Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary. I’m reading this the day after I ordered a Nexus 5. Not that it would have made much of a difference… but still a very interesting read. Besides, it made me change my mind on some aspects I already…

  • Samsung Is Killing Google’s Android

    About a year ago I asked myself whether Android was dead. The answer is, a year later, probably not. The trend we all can see is that Google is simply losing control over the Android ecosystem. If you ask them, they’d probably answer that control is not the point, and it’s probably not very far…