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Cloudflare started as a CDN that quickly became popular among developers due to its efficiency in delivering customer facing Internet content from a closer location to the end user than the real location of the backend server. Here is how to integrate Approov token checking into it. Read Full Story

Xamarin is a very popular framework for building cross platform apps using C#. Microsoft offers full support for inclusion of native iOS or Android libraries and an excellent IDE, Visual Studio, making Xamarin an ideal cross platform mobile app development solution. You shouldn’t need to compromise on security just because you are using a higher level framework rather than developing native apps. Our Xamarin Quickstart guide allows you to easily get up and running with Approov, whether you are building a new app or adapting an existing one to have an improved security posture. Read Full Story

Approov API Threat Protection protects the APIs which service your mobile apps from abuse and fraud by unauthorized bad actors. We talk to customers about how Approov authenticates genuine mobile app instances without requiring hidden secrets or design decision making in the app. We discuss the simplicity of integrating it into your app and deploying it in production. We even talk about the scalability, redundancy and resilience built into the Approov cloud service. However, what we don’t talk enough about is our metrics, a required feature to monitor and manage your service. With this article, we will give our metrics the description they deserve. Read Full Story

API Gateways have become very popular for deploying APIs at scale because they sit between the client and the API server backend This enables all kinds of integrations without the need to modify the API code itself, and that’s exactly what Kong API Gateway excels at. Read Full Story

Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash Our aim is to make the process of integrating Approov into your mobile app as simple as possible. Our Quickstart guides show you how to add Approov into your app, tailored to whatever framework or programming style you’ve already adopted. In this blog we are going to cover the options we have for iOS Native app development. Read Full Story

Photo by James Wheeler from Pexels NGINX first gained popularity as a fast and efficient web server with cache, load balancing and reverse proxy capabilities. With the evolution to NGINX Plus it gained additional capabilities, such as acting as an API Gateway with built in security controls. These security controls can be further extended via dynamic modules and we will utilise them to integrate Approov into the platform without changing any API code. Read Full Story

Photo by Digital Buggu from Pexels Google announced Android App Bundles a couple of years ago at I/O 2018. App Bundles are a new app publishing format providing new features that have rapidly driven their adoption. In particular App Bundle delivery enables automatic splitting of various assets within the overall app package, so they are only delivered to a device if they are actually needed. Read Full Story

Photo by Ferenc Almasi on Unsplash React Native is a very popular framework for building cross platform apps. Apps are developed in Javascript, but with full support for inclusion of native iOS or Android libraries where that is necessary. You shouldn’t need to compromise on security though just because you are using a higher level framework rather than developing native apps. Our React Native Quickstart allows you to easily get up and running with Approov, whether you are building a new app or adapting an existing one to have an improved security posture. Read Full Story

Photo by Ankush Rathi from Pexels Editor's note: This post was originally published in April 2020 and has been revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. The latest update was in September 2020. Approov lets your mobile app prove to a backend API that it really is the official mobile app making the call, and that it is not running in an environment that may be compromised. Only requests from the apps that you specifically allow can make successful requests. Read Full Story

Photo by Pathum Danthanarayana on Unsplash Our aim is to make the process of integrating Approov into your mobile app as simple as possible. Our Quickstart guides show you how to Approov into your app, tailored to whatever framework or programming style you’ve already adopted. In this blog we are going to cover the comprehensive options we have for Android Native app development. Read Full Story