Support Forums: Message List - Today's big security threat? Developer incompetence on your mobile app team

Old School Virtualization - Server Renders UI

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:19:52 -0500

What we're talking about here is the whole application and resources running on a server, and all the mobile client gets is a virtualized UI. Think of it like a remote desktop, except instead of a remote desktop, you have a remote smartphone UI....

virtualizing the experience ?

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:01:32 -0500

"virtualizing the experience"
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I correctly understand your post. Are you talking about webviews looking like native apps ?

TheServerSide Rises Again...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:33:58 -0500

By the way, one thing I did hear often was purely virtualizing the experience, where *everything* was on the server. Currently the exeprience sucks with such approaches, but they seem to be the only approach that makes the device and data really...

Right on the money

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:26:47 -0500

I'm not an Android expert by any means, so I can't speak too intelligently to the technical aspect of your point. But indeed, these were the concerns many raised at the conference.

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Android & password

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:18:55 -0500

I'm wondering how you could save password in an encrypted way with Android. If you store the encryption key on the application, you can get it by decompiling the code and finding it. I think it's not a good idea to save any password on an Android...

Today's big security threat? Developer incompetence on your mobile app team

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:25:38 -0500

It would appear that the shorter development cycles and the rush to get up to speed on the latest mobile APIs is taking its toll on what would normally pass as standard development practices, and that's creating a massive problem that security...