Uh-oh. Boffins say most Android apps can slurp your screen – and you wouldn't even know it • The Register

What is billed as the "first large-scale empirical research of media permissions and leaks from Android apps" has found that an alarming number can help themselves to your screen. Authors Elleen Pan (Northeastern University), Jingjing Ren (Northeastern University), Martina Lindorfer (UC Santa Barbara), Christo Wilson (Northeastern University), and David Choffnes (Northeastern University) studied 17,260 apps over a year from Google Play Store and other download sites, and used dynamic analysis on a subdetermine of around 9,000 apps. Their paper is titled Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfiltration from Android Applications (summary and PDF). They found that users and app developers, that purportedly determine and control permissions, are unaware what 3rd libraries are slurping. "There is no permission required for third-party code in an app to continuously record the monitor displayed to the user," they note.

Best sports apps for Android

ever we have to deal by these pesky little things called lives, here are the sports apps to keep you in the game even When you're stuck grinding out of your daily 9-5, or worse, stuck at your significant other's high school reunion. ESPN's app is one of the most-downloaded and most-used sports apps on Android, and that's because it's a first-class app that's easy to navigate, easy to customize, and has scores for just about eextremely college and major league sport you could imagine. Download ESPN (free, membership services) theScoretheScore is a sports app that's been around for a while, and it's got 2 features that help determine it apart from the rest of the pack here: a glorious dark theme and dedication to delivering the extremely best sports experience on Android. theScore alextremely has an esports app for those that are looking for the laanalisis League of Legends tournament results. Download theScore (free) CBS Sports AppCBS Sports is a solid sports app, especially for cord-cutters, ever the CBS Sports app features CBS Sports HQ, a free, streaming 24-hours sports channel by news, commentary, and events.

Android apps are heading to a whiter future with rounder rectangles

according to Android apps are heading to a whiter future by rounder rectangles A hint of what's to come from Google's 2018 Material redesignA Google design sizzle reel, prepared to tease the upcoming Material Design update across all of Android, has surfaced to give us an early peek at how Google is planning to refresh the look of its own Android apps. Created by Adam Grabowski and Nicolo Bianchino, designers who've collaborated by Google in the past, the video shows off some conceptual images for the future of the Google Photos, Google Maps, and Gmail apps, among others. The biggest differences shown off by the video are the rounding of eextremely rectangle's corners and the discarding of solid color blocks as design elements within Google's apps. Instead, the new Google Photos looks closer to Instagram: spartan and minimalist in its interface by tons of white space — probably also much white space. The video was captured by the team at WinFuture.de before being hidden, and you can see it for yourself below.

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