The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 89 (February 2-8)
In the new weekly digest - the story of relatively unsuccessful struggle with adware on Google Play, the rise and fall of two-factor authentication of Yandex, iOS streaming of content, the new report “The state of mobile advertising” from Opera, Yandex.Metro following users and many other interesting articles and news .
Under the cut, I will tell my version of events: how I calculated and searched for adware on Google Play, decompiled adware sdk code, can I wait for a response from Google support, why mobile antiviruses are useless and how they manage to make a good free adware on the hot information desk.
We have apps for subscribers with a personal account on Android and iOS. When the number of WP smartphone users in our network exceeded half a million, we naturally began to write the application. Considering the number of potential installations and the fact that other application operators on WP do not, Microsoft strongly helped us with information on the features of the OS.
For a successful attack, you need a relatively fast Internet on your smartphone (in order to have a cookie before the victim) and a good camera on the device is desirable. My code was successfully recognized from a distance of up to a meter, while my experimental friends did not notice anything and were very surprised at this trick when I showed them their mail on my phone. ')
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