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Published inAug 2016
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ISBN-139781785288951
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Emil Atanasov
Emil Atanasov
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Emil Atanasov

Emil Atanasov is an IT consultant with broad experience in mobile technologies. He has been exploring the field of mobile development since 2006. Emil has a MSc in Media Informatics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany and a MSc in Computer Science from Sofia Unversity "St. Kliment Ohridsky", Bulgaria. He has worked for several huge USA companies and has been a freelancer for several years. Emil has experience in software design and development. He was involved in the process of redesigning, improving and creating a number of mobile apps. Currently, he is focused on the rapidly growing mobile sector and manages a great team of developers that provides software solutions to clients around the world. As an Android team leader and project manager, Emil was leading a team that was developing a part of the Nook Color firmware -a e-magazine/ e-book reader, which supports the proprietary Barnes & Nobel and some other e-book formats. He is one of the people behind the "Getting Started with Flurry Analytics" book. He also contributed largely to the book "Objective C Memory Management". "I want to thank my family and friends for being so cool. Thank you for supporting me even though I'm such a bizarre geeky person, who is spending most of the time in the digital world. Thank you, guys!"
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Enrique López Mañas
Enrique López Mañas
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Enrique López Mañas

Enrique Lpez Maas is a Google Developer Expert and independent IT consultant. He has been working with mobile technologies and learning from them since 2007. He is an avid contributor to the open source community and a FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) kind of guy, being among the top 10 open source Java contributors in Germany. He is a part of the Google LaunchPad accelerator, where he participates in Google global initiatives to influence hundreds of the best startups from all around the globe. He is also a big data and machine learning aficionado. In his free time he rides his bike, take pictures, and travels until exhaustion. He also writes literature and enjoys all kinds of arts. He likes to write about himself in third person. You can follow him on Twitter (@eenriquelopez) to stay updated on his latest movements.
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Diego Grancini
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Diego Grancini

Diego Grancini has a degree in telecommunications and IT engineering from Perugia University. He has developed his skills on Android development for more than six years leading and contributed to several projects, teaching and sharing his skills during his career. He joined Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A. after his degree, defining his own knowledge about Java and Android development working as the lead Android developer for years. Then he joined J.P. Morgan & Chase, strengthening his skills about security and performance in software development and Android platform in particular.
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WhatsApp – the eternal showcase of "no-gos"

WhatsApp can showcase some of the flags an application can present. A bug was reported in 2011, stating that communications within WhatsApp were not encrypted. A device connected to the same Wi-Fi network could access the communications between other devices. It took almost a year to get this bug fixed, a bug that was not especially complex to solve.

Later that year, a problem that allowed an attacker to impersonate a user and take control over his account was also reported. In January 2012, a hacker published a website that made it possible to change the status of any device with WhatsApp installed, if the phone number was known. The only measure taken by WhatsApp to fix this bug was to block the IP address of the website (as any reader can imagine, this is far from being an effective measure).

A big problem present for many years in WhatsApp is that the messages are stored in a local database. This was done in the external storage, which is the...

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Emil Atanasov

Emil Atanasov is an IT consultant with broad experience in mobile technologies. He has been exploring the field of mobile development since 2006. Emil has a MSc in Media Informatics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany and a MSc in Computer Science from Sofia Unversity "St. Kliment Ohridsky", Bulgaria. He has worked for several huge USA companies and has been a freelancer for several years. Emil has experience in software design and development. He was involved in the process of redesigning, improving and creating a number of mobile apps. Currently, he is focused on the rapidly growing mobile sector and manages a great team of developers that provides software solutions to clients around the world. As an Android team leader and project manager, Emil was leading a team that was developing a part of the Nook Color firmware -a e-magazine/ e-book reader, which supports the proprietary Barnes & Nobel and some other e-book formats. He is one of the people behind the "Getting Started with Flurry Analytics" book. He also contributed largely to the book "Objective C Memory Management". "I want to thank my family and friends for being so cool. Thank you for supporting me even though I'm such a bizarre geeky person, who is spending most of the time in the digital world. Thank you, guys!"
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Enrique López Mañas

Enrique Lpez Maas is a Google Developer Expert and independent IT consultant. He has been working with mobile technologies and learning from them since 2007. He is an avid contributor to the open source community and a FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) kind of guy, being among the top 10 open source Java contributors in Germany. He is a part of the Google LaunchPad accelerator, where he participates in Google global initiatives to influence hundreds of the best startups from all around the globe. He is also a big data and machine learning aficionado. In his free time he rides his bike, take pictures, and travels until exhaustion. He also writes literature and enjoys all kinds of arts. He likes to write about himself in third person. You can follow him on Twitter (@eenriquelopez) to stay updated on his latest movements.
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Diego Grancini

Diego Grancini has a degree in telecommunications and IT engineering from Perugia University. He has developed his skills on Android development for more than six years leading and contributed to several projects, teaching and sharing his skills during his career. He joined Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.P.A. after his degree, defining his own knowledge about Java and Android development working as the lead Android developer for years. Then he joined J.P. Morgan & Chase, strengthening his skills about security and performance in software development and Android platform in particular.
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