Steven Osborn » apws

Android Market Success/Blunders

steve918 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:15:51 +0000

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

Android Password-Safe makes it to Market

steve918 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:21:38 +0000

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.com

Any feature request/bug reports to:
http://code.google.com/p/android-passwordsafe/issues/list

Big thanks to Randy for all his hard work.

Android PasswordSafe Update

steve918 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:14:15 +0000

Android PasswordSafe now works with Android .9_r1 thanks to Randy McEoin.

Go Open-Source!

Android Password Safe

steve918 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:16:24 +0000

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.