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Apple & Google Accerlates Coronavirus through Contact Tracing Apps

Apple and Google have recently announced that there is a huge collaboration between both of them to create a contact tracing app. The main aim of creating this app is to slow the spread of the COVID19 Pandemic by allowing the users to log in to their mobile phones. This is one of the rare collaboration that is happening between two Silicon Valley Companies and whose operating system is powered 99% of the world’s smartphone.

There is a rare collaboration between the two Silicon Valley companies who have the operating system that powers about 99% of the world’s largest smartphones. These mobile applications will help to trace the patients if any of the COVID 19 pandemic and will help them to get treatment instantly so that others may not get affected. The usage of mobile applications can help to accerlate the potentially affected patients into testing or can be mad quarantine quickly so that other may not get affected from the virus.

This contact tracing app will play a significant role in managing the spread of coronavirus pandemic in this lockdown. So, those others may not get affected by this spread and will have a safer environment in the future. By suing this technology all the infected will come into the contact and can be sent for the treatment so that others may not get affected from the same. In this way, you can favor the decentralized system thus to trace the contacts and government in Asia and Europe where the spread of COVID is much more than any other country.

How does Contact Tracing App Will work?

With the pushing movement of centralized approaches, that have resulted in technical weakness and potentially let the government understand with whom the people are associated is far much better. With Apple and Google, people will get all the public functions that they might need with the decentralized approaches and a privacy friendly app. The centralized solutions are also proposed with other major countries such as Germany and Britain and they will also not work under the new technology until the spread is not decreased.

This application is very useful especially in the place where the infected persons do not have any idea whom they had been close to for the extended duration. While it is not mandatory that people have to use this mobile application, but if anyone is using then they have to open or turn on their Bluetooth settings in their mobile devices so that tracing can be done perfectly.

The need to enable the push notification is also required if you are using this mobile application and your location permission in the app is also mandatory which is available on the Google Play Store or Apple Play Store. Currently, this has not been recorded how many people are using this mobile application.

In this mobile application, the official contact tracers can provide the code which users can match up to with the verification process or the code on their app. Once the verification code is authenticated, then the users will get a PIN that will allow the data to be submitted. The traces will never ask from the user for any personal financial details or the request to transfer any amount over their mobile devices, so be aware of the fraudulent.

When users are using this mobile application, then they will also be asked for sharing their data logs. If the user does not share their data logs, then they will be prosecuted under the Infectious Diseases Act and they will have certain legal actions to be taken.

Is the Mobile Application Substitute for testing?

Apple and Google have panned to release this software for mobile applications in the mid of May to contact tracing apps which they and the public health authorities will approve and also said that the new tool will enable them to drop potentially unreliable work all around. The apps will help to focus on developing a simple interface so that everyone or the other person can use this mobile application.

The interface of this mobile application is kept very simple and user friendly so that the users and the workers of healthcare industry can use it. With Apple and Google handling Bluetooth and privacy issues, this app will play a significant role in controlling the spread of this virus and thus will help to prevent and cure people much faster. However, this mobile application is being launched in the mid of the month, and therefore users need not have to separate app to log nearby phones.

It has also been stated that this is not a substitute for testing but the users must be aware of that it produces the actionable results so that people can act responsibly and self-isolate themselves to avoid the spread and in contact of this virus and thus decrease the anxiety in the community about the spread as a whole.

Conclusion

Lastly, this mobile app development of developing contact tracing app will help not only the users but also the healthcare department to prevent the spread of this virus and make people free and aware of the anxiety that they are facing in the community.

Now Travel Smartly with the Google Maps Pilots Feature

Recently, Google has added a new functionality feature called pilot program to the google maps. The app permits google maps users to select in the market and follow the topmost local guides just you need to click the follow button on the user profile page. With this method when you will be on google maps your locality will be displayed from the recommendations of your favorite local guide. You will observe the recommendations about the area and you will see “for you” tab from local guides in your google maps app.

For now, Google is piloting the program in nine cities, which includes:

Bangkok
Delhi
London
Mexico City
New York
Osaka
San Francisco
São Paulo and
Tokyo

If all goes well, it will grow to more markets.

The feature of google maps is the most contemporary progress that considered facebook at first to locate area business and keep a piece of proper news check out sales and development. One year ago, Google revealed the new feature named “follow” to trace business on map application later came in iOS.

In mid-2019, Google launched a tool host for local businesses that help to update profile pictures and details on google maps, this enables them to leave a short URL as a pathway for the visitors, also they can grant offers to the customers.

Local guide program requires a good source and data for their business at the best level in mapping and avigation niche. This is supported by individuals as well as publicly, without proficient analytics or critics. This implies that the activity can draw or miss reviews can do themselves. Till now, Google has emphasized the engagements and quantity of reviews, not the precision and quality of reviews.

Not all the local guide reviews are relevant, many do the best, observing the review a mark written by a local guide is not the sign of the quality of the review. In any case, the feature of coming to the nine test markets concentrated on the local guide profile and photographs. Rather than improving the expressions, it will be helpful to improve the accuracy and quality of the reviews. You can help from the displayed photo and the “for you” tab of google maps present the best recommendations. The displayed collages and pictures are best for the assistance.

At Google’s annual Local Guides summit, the latest feature was announced, along with it, Google also shared how the Local Guides community has now expanded to roughly 120 million across 24,000 cities & towns. In any case, this is another confirmation that the organization is commending client growth, yet not really with an eye on review quality. Clients will have the option to discover top Local Guides in the ‘For You’ part of the Google Maps application, from where you can follow them. When you follow them, Google Maps will begin indicating recommendations by the guides.

Google begins app defense alliance to subdue malicious mobile apps from play store

On the 7th of November 2019, Wednesday google announced the mobile apps defense alliance on the play store. It reinforces the security rules and regulations to prevent any bad app from entering the play store. And it is all about the security of the users because there are more than 2.5 billion android users, and the number of mobile apps on the play store crossed the 2.9 million by March 2020. The probability of bad activities has increased. But now the App Defense Alliance has raised the scanning of every app before they are listed on the play store.

Because maybe you accidentally download them, now the developers and mobile app development company will have to take more care about the security of data entered by users. The app defense alliance is a collaboration of three companies on the board right now. with the new features bug identification, smoothness check, and security breaches are integrated.

Tackling malicious mobile apps and activities

In the reports by Google about removing the malicious application, millions of downloads are expected in threat. Google found 172 malicious mobile apps and 335 million downloads were found in September 2019. Along with this 42 malicious with a collective download of 8 million downloads were removed. With these assistances, app defense alliance is a welcome addition to the security. Android app development companies that are very reputed and leading in the technological field need to take care of the integrations and accessibilities of the files they develop. Play store is enough strong now to identify the malignant application. This was very important to save other apps and users from the drastic loss of security and trust.

Welcoming three organizations on-board for enhanced security

The major companies in technological niche ESET, lookout, and Zimperium to result in this activity. The app defense alliance is a function to stop the malignant app before they reach users. Filtration and scanning before they go publicly active in the part of the alliance. A malignant app is an app that contains useless activity that can harm the data present in the device, or does nasty promotions. All three boards in the alliance coordinate the work function of google play protect.

The above process will make the checking more streamlined to avoid any suspicious app from stealing user data or affecting the device with malware. “The Android biological system is flourishing with over 2.5 billion smartphones and tablets; however, this prevalence additionally makes it an appealing objective for misuse. This is valid for every single worldwide stage: where there is programming with overall expansion, terrible entertainers are attempting to assault it for their increase. Working intimately with our industry, accomplices offers us a chance to team up with some genuinely capable specialists in our field and the location motors they’ve manufactured. This is all with the objective of, together, decreasing the danger of application-based malware, distinguishing new dangers, and ensuring our clients,” the above was directly quotes by Google in a blog entry about the App Defense Alliance.

Conclusion

The reports released by google are reported about the harmful apps from the PlayStore that removed about 700000 apps in 2017 and numerous downloads too. Along with these 42 toxic apps with 8 million downloads removed in October. The google play store has seen the many cases of terrible apps that are being transferred and making a threat. This is the reason google propose the App Defense alliance the program highly integrated with the latest tools and techniques enhancing the security and protection. The company has updated it also one play store as play protect has seen in new updates of play store.

Latest Encryption Method Adiantum for the Billion Users

Encryption is not a topic to be taken lightly. Present age devices come with strong support for encryption techniques. Encrypted devices keep personal data, accounts, files, credentials and almost everything available on the smart devices securely away from the reach of thieves and hackers. One cannot crack into any phone without knowing the passcode/password pin/pattern, and likewise, it is not feasible to extract any data from such encrypted devices. But there are many devices which come with less robust encryption technology.

Adiantum Encryption

For such low-powered devices, Google has launched the new encryption technology called Adiantum. This Google’s update is to make encryption more effective on less-powerful devices like phones, smartwatches, TV’s that are without cryptographic acceleration, to ensure that all devices are encryption enabled.

With encryption, comes slow performance of the devices. It is inescapable for the encryption to add overheads that slow down the smart devices and computer systems in many cases. Many times it goes unnoticed as high-end devices have a dedicated processor for encryption. The focus here is on the lower-end devices that like Android smart devices and phones that have a miss of robust encryption methods.

That is when Adiantum comes into the scene.

Adiantum with ChaCha Stream Cipher

Android provides encryption to a lot of smart devices in the form of Advanced Encryption Standards called AES. The higher-end devices use ARMv8 cryptography extension and the lower end devices use a slow ARM Cortex-A7 to lower the cost. These lower-end processors do not have hardware support for AES. In such a case the devices work slowly and deliver poor user experience.

To avoid this situation, ChaCha 20 cipher is used when the acceleration AES is not available. It is fast and secure and depends on operations that CPU supports. However, in the absence of AES super performance, no option can be used to provide better performance on the lower end devices.

Storage space and Performance

To overcome this problem, Adiantum integrates ChaCha stream cipher in length preserving mode with AES based length encryption proposals like HCTR and HCH. The new process doesn’t require any dedicated additional space or blocks to store the encryption metadata. It is suitable for devices that have low storage space as it doesn’t increase the size of the data.

The original data is of equal size as the encrypted data. Even this aids in faster encryption as no new headers or footers need to be added while encrypting the data. ARM Cortex A7 combined with Adiantum has five times speedier encryption and decryption on 4096-byte as compared to AES-256-XTS.

At the performance level, it is expected that the new technology will create a new layer of security without the need to add expensive specialized hardware to encrypt the locally stored data, further increasing the protection of the data in the devices. Also, it is likely that the low budget devices will benefit from increased security.

Conclusion

Everyone has a right to safeguard their information and data from theft and seasoned hackers. Encryption can toll on devices with less powerful encryption processors. It is believed that the new encryption method will allow the next generation devices to grow more secure further allowing the billion new users to be online safely.

With the ChaCha stream Cipher which is employed with HTTPS encryption, the new technology is faster than AES when expensive hardware is unavailable. Contact our mobile app development company to enrich your app privacy with the latest technology.