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steve918
Android Market Success/Blunders
Android Password Safe has surpassed 10,000 downloads, it’s really exciting when a weekend project turns into something people actually use!
Having an app on Android Market has been quite an adventure. The download counter will reset every time I upload a new version of my application, then suddenly correct itself several days later. There is no upgrade notification for users who have already downloaded my app. The only way they’ll know is if they manually check for updates (lame). In addition to Android’s brokenness I created quite a bit of heartache for myself. After uploading the first version of the Password Safe I managed to loose the key used to sign the application. This caused considerable pain to the end users who had to export all of their passwords, uninstall APWS and then re-install and import their passwords.
Even though Android market place has some serious issues, it’s getting the word out about all of the great applications out there and overall I’m pretty excited about the future of the platform
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steve918
Android Password-Safe makes it to Market
Android Password-Safe is finally live on Android Market place.
Password-Safe is a secure password storage application for Google’s Android mobile platform. It uses AES 128bit encryption to keep passwords secure. Includes support for passwords groups and CSV import/export.
Some features planed for the near future:
- Search
- Random Password Generation
If you have any questions or feedback send your emails to:
android-pws@googlegroups.comAny feature request/bug reports to:
http://code.google.com/p/android-passwordsafe/issues/listBig thanks to Randy for all his hard work.
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steve918
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steve918
Android conspiracy theories.
Everyone loves conspiracy theories, so I thought I would share the latest. Some of the developers who entered Google’s Android Developer Challenge (ADC) are accusing Google of giving MIT favorable treatment and an unfair advantage. Claims include extending the contest around MIT’s class schedule, providing students with devices (their not available to other contestants) and Google employees hand holding students.
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steve918
Android Password Safe
I’ve got my first working Android application together. It’s just a simple password safe with some decent features for a first release including:
- 128 Bit AES Encryption
- Password protected. Your password is needed to decrypt the data stored in the safe
- All data is entrypted including notes, website link, description
- Click through website link, will take you from your entry to the website.
Here are a couple of screen shots to give you an idea of what the application looks like (Click to enlarge)
Plans for future versions include:
- Fetching/Caching of favicons
- Customizable encryption. Maybe 256bit AES, DES, etc.
You can always download it and check it out for yourself. Let me know what you think and if you find any bugs or have ideas for improvements.
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Mfer
Hi Steve. Great application. Maybe in the future can sync with another desktop application (1 password or keepassx). Congratulations.
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Mark
Hi Steve,
I was thinking about upgrading to an Android phone but couldn’t find a password app in the store so this is great.
One enhancement I would love would be to able to sync with a desktop app so secrets could be edited and accessed from both my phone and desktop.
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Graeme
Hi Steve I would also like an application that can sync with a desktop application as well, also a search function would be good as this is used a lot in my existing password store.
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steven
@Graeme this project is now part of OpenIntents and is not maintained by me. Check out http://www.openintents.org/en/node/205 I recommend filing a feature request with them.
Graeme, 
Mark and 2 others are discussing. 
tokuda 4:43 pm on November 14, 2008 Permalink |
I wonder why bother using password safe if you have the free Mashedlife.com?
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KeePass and Passwordsafe are safe and handy! But when I need to sync
across multiple PCs, log on to my site from my iPhone, or share accounts
with others, etc.
I combine the best of 2 worlds by using MashedLife.com’s open source
integration with Keepass and Password Safe!
http://mashedlife.com/tools.php
Stay productive!
ken.manheimer.myopenid.com/ 2:10 pm on December 20, 2008 Permalink |
first, thanks, steve, for the android password safe! i normally use the gpg-topic-encryption feature of my emacs outliner (allout) for my passwords, and considering it’ll be a while before emacs is available for the G1 (though ConnectBot lets me use emacs on remote hosts, amazingly), some kind of local storage is great!
i’m writing to note that there is an application (in the market) that tracks application updates, “OI Update”. not sure how well it works, but it’s notified me about a few updates, and at least is encouraging that much of the ecosystem can emerge in an open way. we’ll see – android together with google personal apps gets me so much further than anything else towards unified, portable organization that i’m happy with the baseline, will enjoy seeing where/how it goes from here…