Security for your digital life is more important than ever. Passwords have been common up until now, but identity and authentication methods are moving away from usernames and passwords. They require users to sacrifice convenience for security and add friction to the…
Security for your digital life is more important today than ever, but it can be a real pain. Mobile authentication typically means getting out your phone, unlocking it, opening an app, remembering a password, authenticating in the app. Authentication via biometrics…
Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) architectures allow you to parallelize code execution. SIMD allows you to perform the same operation on an entire sequence or vector of data during the course of one instruction. You can thus use SIMD to improve the performance…
Do not repeat yourself (DRY) is one of the major principles of software development, and following this principle typically means reusing your code via functions. Unfortunately, invoking a function adds extra overhead. To reduce this overhead, compilers take advantage…
As an Android game developer, you have two choices for graphics APIs: OpenGL ES and Vulkan. In this article, we’re going to take a look at Vulkan. Designed for developers looking to push the cutting edge of real-time 3D graphics on mobile devices, Vulkan acts as…
