Debugging Your Android Source Code With ADB

Debugging your source code is a critical part of any application development process and Android is no exception.

A lot of people post comments or email me asking me to help them with their application that isn’t working. The first thing I try to ask for are the log files. I do this because 90% of the time, the log files have an error message that tells us exactly what line the error is on.

Open Dynamic Links Using The Cordova InAppBrowser

Previously I had written a post regarding how to use the Apache Cordova InAppBrowser plugin to launch external URLs in an Ionic Framework application. This previous post was basic and was only enough to get you started.

Since then, I’ve been asked a few times how to use the InAppBrowser as the default method to launching URLs. More specifically, URLs that have been created dynamically by users.

Using Nested States With The AngularJS UI-Router

When coding, it is good practice to reduce duplicating your code as much as possible. When you build a website, multiple pages may be grouped with specific layouts that are used any number of times. You don’t want to duplicate your layout code across these pages.

A common thing to do in web design is to use templating. This exists similarly across many web languages, but in this example I’m going to demonstrate how to do this with AngularJS and the UI-Router extension.

Use ngStorage For All Your AngularJS Local Storage Needs

I’ve been doing a lot of work with AngularJS lately, and in particular Ionic Framework. However, up until recently I have been using either HTML5 local storage or SQLite.

Now I’ve switched gears and started using the AngularJS module ngStorage which has made my life a lot easier.

Prerender Your AngularJS Apps To Boost SEO

A Twitter subscriber of mine recently asked me if I knew how to use Prerender with my AngularJS applications to boost SEO when being crawled by search engines. My immediate answer was no, but I offered to help him figure it out and write an article on it.

Prerendering AngularJS web apps is critical for SEO because when web crawlers such as Google crawl a web page, they do not process all the AngularJS source code and curly bracket elements. With prerendering enabled, a web crawler will see the actual value found in curly brackets rather than the variables themselves.

Extract An Android APK And View Its Source Code

So you’ve just made an Android application. One that took you ages to complete and something that you feel proud of. What is going to stop someone from stealing your logic and source code? How easy is it to obtain? The short story is that your source code is not safe by default and it is very easy to obtain.

This tutorial is going to be broken up in two parts.

1. Extract the source code from a native Android application
2. Extract the source code from a hybrid Apache Cordova / Ionic Framework / Phonegap application

Both are designed differently, but the source code is just as easy to access. For each of these application types, you will see how to better protect your code using obfuscation practices.

Understanding Request Signing For Oauth 1.0a Providers

I am very familiar with Oauth 2.0, but recently I had to work with Twitter and it was not as smooth of an experience as other providers such as Google and Facebook. This is because Twitter uses Oauth 1.0a and requires request signing.

Oauth 1.0a requires requests to be signed using HMAC and a secret key. Using this protects communication between the client and the server, but how do we accomplish this task?