TIP: Activate via URL and Send Arguments

The most secure password in the world is the one that doesn’t exist. You remove the user from the equation…

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Date Util

Timezones suck. Especially daylight saving. I don’t mind moving the clock or losing an hour of sleep as much as…

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TIP: Stop Editing

Device only bugs are the worse. You need to go through a device build and reproduce/rinse/repeat. Thankfully these bugs are…

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Activation UI and the Builder Pattern

I wrote two posts about the SMS activation process. In the first I discussed using the Twilio API via REST…

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Intercept Incoming SMS on Android

Last week I talked about using SMS to activate your application which is a pretty powerful way to verify a…

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Default & Static Methods In Interfaces

In our original Java 8 support announcement post we specifically mentioned the lack of streams but completely missed the fact…

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JavaDocs Source Samples That Don’t Suck

JavaDoc source code embeds suck! I love JavaDoc but it didn’t age well. When you work with other tools (e.g.…

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Analysis: Google Moving to OpenJDK, What That Really Means

I’ve been following the news breaking since yesterday as a hacker news post highlighted that an Android commit included OpenJDK…

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ParparVM Spreads Its Wings

We wrote quite a bit about the architecture of the new VM we built for iOS and why we built…

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