Programming
Fail-Fast vs. Fail-Safe: What Is the Most Reliable Software Strategy?
I love cooking and use my Thermomix a lot. If you hadn’t heard about that amazing innovation, it’s a kitchen robot… Well, it’s a magical super cooking machine. When designing the Thermomix, its designers took the approach of fail-safe instead of fail-fast. This is a smart choice in this case, but it has its drawbacks. …
Spot Your UI Jank Using CPU Profiler In Android Studio
Android renders user interface (UI) by generating a frame from your app and displaying it on the screen. To ensure that a user’s interaction with your app is smooth, your app should render each frame under the refresh rate that is determined by each device–for example, Pixel 6 allows rendering 90 frames per second at the maximum, …
Boost The Security Of Your App With The Nonce Field Of The Play Integrity API
With the recent launch of the Play Integrity API, more developers are now taking action to protect their games and apps from potentially risky and fraudulent interactions. In addition to useful signals on the integrity of the app, the integrity of the device, and licensing information, the Play Integrity API features a simple, yet very useful …
SPIRE Now Runs On Windows!
At its heart, the SPIRE project aims to solve the problem of securely issuing workload identities at scale, no matter where the workload is running. It does that by having an extensible architecture composed of plugins that allow SPIRE to grow depending on the needs of supporting different platforms, cloud providers, etc. Until now, SPIRE could only …
Introducing Health Connect, A New API For Android App Developers To Securely Access User Health Data
From helping you log your meals with MyFitnessPal to getting a holistic view of your health with Withings, apps and devices are a source for many kinds of useful health and fitness data. As Android developers, connecting and sharing this data between apps can help you provide more meaningful experiences and insights for your users. …
How Do You Integrate Emissary Ingress With OPA
API gateways play a vital role while exposing microservices. They are an additional hop in the network that the incoming request must go through in order to communicate with the services. An API gateway does routing, composition, protocol translation, and user policy enforcement after it receives a request from client and then reverse proxies it …
Learning To Code: The New Super Mom Skill To Have
Mother’s Day is a significant occasion to thank your mother and celebrate her motherhood. She is the one who loves you unconditionally and will not give a second thought if she needed to save your life by giving up her own. Mothers’ contribution to society is unmatchable. Motherhood is the greatest gift of God to …
This ‘Countess of Computing’ Wrote The First Computer Program
Ada Lovelace is pictured at 20 years old in a portrait from 1835. Lovelace combined her mother’s mathematical rigor with her father’s imagination. When she was 12 years old, she decided (as many children do) that she wanted to fly, but unlike other children whose attempts may have been limited to jumping off chairs, she …
Measure And Improve Performance With Macrobenchmark
Introduction to Jetpack Macrobenchmark and Baseline Profiles Are you thinking about optimizing your app’s performance, but don’t know where to start? Or have you optimized the performance and wonder if there’s space for improvement? You could benchmark your app! In this article, we’ll take a look at how the Jetpack Macrobenchmark library helps you understand your app’s …
3 Open Source Tools For People With Learning Difficulties
The ability to customize applications is one of the great strengths of open source. Disabilities significantly impact people’s lives. As someone with dyspraxia and dyslexia, I can tell you that is true. One thing that mitigates my difficulties is the technology I use, such as a screen-reader and task manager. I’ve set up an ecosystem of sorts that …