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Update: May 20th, 2020: Jetpack Security is now RC2!
Update: June 10th, 2020: Jetpack Security 1.1.0–Alpha-01 released, adding support for API level 21+ which includes a redesigned MasterKey implementation.

Have you ever tried to encrypt data in your app? As a developer, you want to keep data safe, and in the hands of the party intended to use. But if you’re like most Android developers, you don’t have a dedicated security team to help encrypt your app’s data properly. …


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Whether your organization has 5 apps or 100, there are tools available to help automate the process of managing all of the Play Store listings. Google Play has a developer API which enables management of Play store listings, APKs, and more. In January 2017 Google acquired the developer tool suite Fabric from Twitter, as part of this acquisition was fastlane, a suite of app automation tools. fastlane can automate screenshots, manage beta deployments, and sign/push apps to the Play store.

Additionally, the Custom App Publishing API enables Managed Google Play users to create private hosted apps without a minimum version check. Managed Google Play is a marketplace for Android Enterprise that adds support for private apps. Private apps are Android apps that are distributed only to internal users and not publicly available. Private app deployments are available within minutes of creation. A fastlane pull request, built by Jan Piotrowski, a core contributor was built to allow for a code-free method of deployment. History on the feature request is in this github issue here. …

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