Android

I am following an Instagram meme page with about 130K followers. These meme pages post ads sometimes when they get paid for them. One such ad said – “Get 10GB Data Everyday for Free for 3 Months – for Jio Prime Users”. Since I am a Jio user, I got curious to check this and was sure – this was some kind of fraud going on, and the ad was not by original Jio — they were using the name of Jio to milk their followers, since many of the users use Jio for their data connection. ...

Developers implement root-detection mechanism in Android to prevent users from using their app on a rooted phone. The app (apk) will implement different checks to determine whether the phone is rooted or not. Later, after this check, if the phone is rooted then the APK will display some message like: “This device is rooted, exiting the application” “This application will not work on rooted device, exiting!” And it will exit the application. ...

Do you know about the Android App Inventor service by Google? (Yes, it was developed by Google, but they took back the support last month, and is now in the hands of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) It allows anyone, including people unfamiliar with computer programming, to create software applications for the Android operating system (OS). It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch and the StarLogo TNG user interface, that allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can run on the Android system, which runs on many mobile devices. ...