Unseen Dangers: Hidden Mobile App Security Risks in Android Libraries

Android developers frequently use third-party libraries to enhance their apps with pre-made functionality and to benefit from the extensive ecosystem. While many popular libraries are either open source projects or built by major software companies, unfortunately, they are not immune to security vulnerabilities.

We're excited to bring Wear OS 4 and new user experiences to more devices, including the new Google Pixel Watch 2! We’re also providing updated developer tools for you to prepare your apps for Wear OS 4.

It’s easy to forget, but whenever Java gains new functionality, so does Kotlin (if it uses a JVM-backend with a JDK >= 21).

Android 14 is already here, so I took the documentation, experts’ reviews, and other available resources to sort out all the important changes that will affect most application developers. Let’s examine new restrictions on background mode, changes in Foreground Service, new restrictions on the work of Intent and BroadcastReceiver. In this release, we have many restrictions, but we’ve also got new features.

With billions of lines of code in its codebase, Google follows a process called Readability, which they describe as the “Google-wide mentorship process for disseminating programming language best practices."