The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 155 (on May 23-29)

The new digest contains three descriptions of ConstraintLayout in Android, a study of the security of the Troika card, design magic, a new Developer Economics survey, 2 years of Monument Valley and many other interesting materials.

Google I / O 2016: Android N and Android Ecosystem Details

Today, a post about the upcoming changes in N: new features and recycled old ones, changes in the UI, VR platform and Android for wearable electronics are waiting for you under the cut.

Techniques to capture the user's attention - from a magician and a designer ethics specialist at Google

I learned to think so when I was a magician. Magicians always start by searching for blind spots, edges, vulnerabilities and limits of perception, so that they are able to influence the behavior of people, and the latter do not even realize it. After you learn how to correctly press these human “buttons”, you can start playing them like a piano.

Troika card security research

The purpose of this study is to determine the security of the e-wallet system from counterfeiting balance, to assess the security of the infrastructure operating with the card. All work was done without the use of special technical means. We used a cheap smartphone on the Android platform and a personal computer. The total time spent on the study was 15 days.
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