Reverse Engineering Apps. A Primer Reverse engineering is a pretty cool concept. Someone builds something, you want to see how they did it, so you take it apart and see how it was put together in the first place. It can be a great way to learn, and it pushes technological progress forward. But there’s also a dangerous side to …
Malicious Apps: Mining Your Own Business Whether you know it or not, you may be an investor in bitcoin. Ok, that’s not entirely true. But your phone may have helped someone else mine it without your consent. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity company, have recently found multiple “mining” apps on the Google Play Store that are disguised otherwise. Apps …
We’ve talked before about how influential augmented reality is going to be in the future. What we didn’t mention is how easy it can be to take part in shaping that future. Over the course of the next two posts we’ll show how to incorporate AR into an app, and when it’s all said and done we’ll be able to …