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Comment · 12 years ago

I'm doing a lot of SAP/OpenUI5 development at the moment and performance seems good. I believe the .war is only needed as a one off if you need to deploy the UI5 libs to a Java server? I'm deploying to SAP systems which already host the libraries so I haven't had that issue. One click deploying from Eclipse is built into the UI5 plugin.

UI5 obviously has the weight of SAP behind it (be that for good or bad!) and new releases seem pretty frequent. For developing web apps to consume SAP data at least it seems the obvious choice (it's very much geared towards consuming oData which SAP Gateway provides).

Comment · 12 years ago

Aside from the price there seems to be a few bugs that have been lingering around for a year or longer with no fix in sight.

One that I have encountered is when uploading files, the progress callback jumps from 0% to 100%. https://www.parse.com/questions/parsefile-progresscallback

The annoying thing is the documentation states: "It's easy to get the progress of both uploads and downloads using ParseFile by passing a ProgressCallback to saveInBackground and getDataInBackground." and provides a code snippet that doesn't work and hasn't worked for two years. Please fix the bug or change the documentation!

Comment · 12 years ago

I'm interested in how you can conceal these API keys in Android, there does not seem to be any recommended approach.

Obscure methods like wrapping them up in C native code get mentioned. I'm assuming Proguard does not help?

Comment · 12 years ago

Ok, I took another look and all the Parse keys are in a very obvious place!

Comment · 12 years ago

Probably, I took it apart and had a quick look but couldn't find the key. I only had a quick scan of the Application and Activity classes though and did a search for Parse.initialize (where the key is passed in)

Comment · 12 years ago

Ok, answered my own question, it contains the Parse library.

Comment · 12 years ago

Out of interest, would you mind sharing what backend they are using?

Is it something like Parse or a custom development?

Comment · 12 years ago

Can this be used to hide API keys? It's fairly trivial to decompile an APK file. As another poster pointed out the key for Conceal would need to be stored somewhere also.

Any ideas or best practises of hiding API keys? Google has not turned up much. This Stackoverflow suggests storing keys remotely, but surely that too would be trivial to hack:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10203910/anti-hack-soluti...

Comment · 12 years ago

From the video: "PrivatOS is the Android you are familiar with"

Comment · 13 years ago

Compared to SAP GUI screens this is like an advanced alien technology.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sap+gui&espv=210&es_sm=93&...

Comment · 13 years ago

For the ASMR there is also the curated site http://www.soothetube.com/

I also like to listen to rain/thunderstorms which I find relaxing. Hope that helps.

Comment · 13 years ago

I have a Win 8 tablet and the app store is a complete joke. I don't think the "use the browser" argument really holds any water. Lots of UX features are only really available when you go the native route, i.e the new "picture in picture" feature in the Android Youtube app.

Comment · 13 years ago

Link to the original image source: http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists...

Comment · 13 years ago

Is the missing micro SD slot due to price or to encourage you to move your data to the cloud I wonder?