To locate a lost or stolen device, the Android Device Manager is used. It is thus developed as a security feature that can also be used to remotely lock or wipe an Android device. Protecting our Android device is the main purpose of the Android Device Manager, for which, it is necessary to connect the … Read more
To integrate the Twitter Log-in API into an Android app, the app Consumer Key (API Key) and Consumer Secret (API Secret) is required which can be generated from https://apps.twitter.com/. The Twitter API is integrated into an Android app usually for log-in using the Twitter account, to share tweets, etc. To generate the Twitter API Key … Read more
To integrate the LinkedIn Sign-In functionality in an Android application, the LinkedIn API is implemented in the Android app. It thus provides the functionality to login using the LinkedIn account, shares post, etc. The LinkedIn Authentication Key (Client ID and Client Secret) and app Hash Key are a must for integrating the LinkedIn API in … Read more
The Google API is used to integrate the Google Sign-In functionality in an Android application. To log in to an Android App using Google account, we need to integrate the Google API in the Android app. For doing this, it is necessary to configure the app to the Google developer account. For the Android application, … Read more
Google reCaptcha is integrated into an Android application to protect the application from malicious traffic. It is implemented using The SafetyNet API is used to implement Google reCaptcha. Working on Google reCaptcha: By calling the network calls between the Android application, SafetyNet server, and our own server, the validation of the Google reCAPTCHA is done. … Read more
To facilitate a piece of short, but timely information about the action happening in the application, even when the application is not running, Android Notification is used in an application. Icon, title, and some amount of the content text can be displayed by the Android notification. Android Notification Properties: The NotificationCompat.Builder object is used … Read more
For the easy use of the SDKs and in-built UI libraries to authenticate the user in the application, the backend services are facilitated by the Firebase Authentication. Nowadays, many apps need the identity of the user. This information of the users is saved securely in the cloud by the app. Thus, a secure authentication system … Read more
Being the seventh major version of Android, Android “Nougat” is codenamed as Android N during development. It was the 14th major changes in the Android operating system. On March 9, 2016, the first alpha test version of Android Nougat was released. On August 22, 2016, it was officially released. The first device released with Nougat … Read more
The tenth big release of the Android operating system was named as Android 10. Being the 17th version, it was developed under the codename “Android Q”. On March 13, 2019, it was initially announced by Google. On March 13, 2019, the first beta version of Android 10 was released. And on April 3, 2019, the … Read more
Being the ninth major release, Android Pie is also known as Android 9. And as the 16th version of the Android operating system, it was given the codename of Android P, during the development. On March 7, 2018, the Android Pie was first released as a developer preview. On August 6, 2018, it was publicly … Read more