Over the last few weeks and in part thanks to my new fascination with Android app security, I have recently found myself heavily invested in cyber security content online. …

Initially released as an alpha during early May 2021, Jetpack’s App Authenticator library is an exciting addition to the ever growing list of security libraries coming from Android’s Jetpack team.

But what is its purpose? In the libraries own words it states the following:

AppAuthenticator is a new library aimed…

It’s 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging on, causing untold turmoil and meaning “life as we previously knew it” to be a long-forgotten thing of the past. …

Hello and welcome to my final post of 2020, a year that has been full of ups and downs, face masks, viruses, and some seriously strange goings-on within an Android project I maintain.

This post is a fun retrospective on an issue faced within the said project, how it was…

Disclaimer: In a part of this post, we will look at how to generate a report of our Gradle project’s dependencies with their available upgrades. My experience with this was in an Android multi-module project but it should apply to just about anything that uses Gradle.

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At work as part…

This is part two of my mini-series on programming finite state machines. If you have yet to check out part one, I highly recommend tackling it before moving on to this part.

In this part, we shall move on to defining and implementing ‘delta hat’, better known as the ‘extended…

Recently I have been re-reading some of my notes from my Computer Science degree, in which one particular second-year course immediately caught my attention. The course focused on, amongst other things, finite state machines and their role in theoretical computer science ¹.

It got me thinking “Could I implement these…