DidFail: a Free Android Tool to Detect Information Leakage

CERT Secure Coding team have recently released a freely available tool capable of analysing the leakage of sensitive information from an Android app. CERT researchers claim their tool “is the most precise taint-flow static analysis tool for Android apps.”

App Extensions for iOS 8 in Depth

Apple recently announced app extensions for iOS 8, which allow developers to extend functionality and content beyond the boundaries of a single app. Learn what iOS 8 app extensions are and how they work.

DBAccess: a Thread-safe, Efficient Alternative to Core Data

DBAccess is a new ORM for iOS that promises to improve on Apple’s Core Data by providing thread-safety and high performance. InfoQ has interviewed its author.

GapDebug, Mobile Debugging Tool for PhoneGap and Cordova, Enters Public Beta

Genuitec has announced a public beta for GapDebug, a free debugger for hybrid mobile apps built on top of the Cordova/PhoneGap SDK. GapDebug integrates versions of the Safari Webkit Inspector and Chrome Dev Tools to offer an integrated debugging experience on OS X and Windows.

Streams Library Brings Lazy Evaluation and Functional-style to C++14

Streams is a C++14 library that provides lazy evaluation and functional-style transformations on the data, to ease the use of C++ standard library containers and algorithms. Streams support many common functional operations such as map, filter, and reduce. InfoQ interviews Streams’ author.