Tips for Successful Real Estate Blogging

There is no better time to talk about Android dessert releases than the holidays because who doesn't love dessert? And what is one of our favorite desserts during the holiday season? Well, pie of course.

In all seriousness, pie is a great analogy because of how the various ingredients turn into multiple layers of goodness: right from the software crust on top to the hardware layer at the bottom. Read on for a summary of security and privacy features introduced in Android Pie this year.

Strengthening Android
Making Android more secure requires a combination of hardening the platform and advancing anti-exploitation techniques.

Platform hardening
With Android Pie, we updated File-Based Encryption to support external storage media (such as, expandable storage cards). We also introduced support for metadata encryption where hardware support is present. With filesystem metadata encryption, a single key present at boot time encrypts whatever content is not encrypted by file-based encryption (such as, directory layouts, file sizes, permissions, and creation/modification times).

Android Pie also introduced a BiometricPrompt API that apps can use to provide biometric authentication dialogs (such as, fingerprint prompt) on a device in a modality-agnostic fashion. This functionality creates a standardized look, feel, and placement for the dialog. This kind of standardization gives users more confidence that they're authenticating against a trusted biometric credential checker.

New protections and test cases for the Application Sandbox help ensure all non-privileged apps targeting Android Pie (and all future releases of Android) run in stronger SELinux sandboxes. By providing per-app cryptographic authentication to the sandbox, this protection improves app separation, prevents overriding safe defaults, and (most significantly) prevents apps from making their data widely accessible.

Anti-exploitation improvements
With Android Pie, we expanded our compiler-based security mitigations, which instrument runtime operations to fail safely when undefined behavior occurs.

Control Flow Integrity (CFI) is a security mechanism that disallows changes to the original control flow graph of compiled code. In Android Pie, it has been enabled by default within the media frameworks and other security-critical components, such as for Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth protocols. We also implemented support for CFI in the Android common kernel, continuing our efforts to harden the kernel in previous Android releases.

Integer Overflow Sanitization is a security technique used to mitigate memory corruption and information disclosure vulnerabilities caused by integer operations. We've expanded our use of Integer Overflow sanitizers by enabling their use in libraries where complex untrusted input is processed or where security vulnerabilities have been reported.

Continued investment in hardware-backed security
One of the highlights of Android Pie is Android Protected Confirmation, the first major mobile OS API that leverages a hardware-protected user interface (Trusted UI) to perform critical transactions completely outside the main mobile operating system. Developers can use this API to display a trusted UI prompt to the user, requesting approval via a physical protected input (such as, a button on the device). The resulting cryptographically signed statement allows the relying party to reaffirm that the user would like to complete a sensitive transaction through their app.

We also introduced support for a new Keystore type that provides stronger protection for private keys by leveraging tamper-resistant hardware with dedicated CPU, RAM, and flash memory. StrongBox Keymaster is an implementation of the Keymaster hardware abstraction layer (HAL) that resides in a hardware security module. This module is designed and required to have its own processor, secure storage, True Random Number Generator (TRNG), side-channel resistance, and tamper-resistant packaging.

Other Keystore features (as part of Keymaster 4) include Keyguard-bound keys, Secure Key Import, 3DES support, and version binding. Keyguard-bound keys enable use restriction so as to protect sensitive information. Secure Key Import facilitates secure key use while protecting key material from the application or operating system. You can read more about these features in our recent blog post as well as the accompanying release notes.

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Getting a new phone is exciting, but the thought of moving all your data from the old phone to the new one may leave you stranded. Most probably, you can’t leave the data behind and a simple copy and paste won’t work either.

Here’s how to move almost all of your data to your new phone the right way. That includes all your SMS, contacts, call logs, media files, configurations, passwords, apps, and app data.

Manufacturer-specific Data Migration apps
Let’s try the all-in-one option first before standard methods, however, this is limited to specific phones and manufacturers.

Top manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, and LG, etc. offer a dedicated app to move your data from your current phone (including iPhone) to their Android phones, in usually the flagship series. These apps can migrate messages, contacts, media files, calendar entries, device settings, app data, and more.

You just need to connect both the phones over Wi-Fi, or using a USB OTG cable.

Below are some of the apps by popular Android manufacturers:

Samsung Smart Switch Mobile
LG Mobile Switch
HTC Transfer Tool
Phone Clone (Huawei)
Xperia™ Transfer Mobile (Sony)
If your phone’s manufacturer isn’t covered above, then you can also search online. Who knows, you might get lucky.


 
Moving Settings &amp; App data
Android phones have a built-in backup option to backup your settings, Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks and app data to Google servers. Here’s how to enable it:

Open phone Settings and go to Backup &amp; reset.
Here toggle on Backup my data option and then select the Google account from the Backup account option.

How to Move All Data to New Android Device

<img src="&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10; &#10;&#10; &#10; &#10;&#10; &#10; &#10;&#10; &#10; &#10;&#10; &#10;&#10;&#10; &#10;&#10; &#10; &#10;&#10; &#10; &#10;&#10; &#10; &#10; &#10;&#10; &#10; https://www.letsdiskuss.com/assets/upl_files/71e5050caa.png" style="width: 560px;"> Android is the biggest app-store with more than 3.6 million apps available for download. It has maintained the top position in the operating system since 2010. Its growth has increased exponentially over the years and has accounted for more than 80% of sales in 2017. Marshmallow, Nougat, and Lollipop are some of the most popular Android versions.
With more and more downloads everyday, people complain of low performance and some take up task killer to kill the apps. Either way, you are harming your machine. 
Why is it harmful to use a task killer? 
Primarily, a task killer is a mobile app which forces the mentioned apps to stop working immediately. There are ﻿different types of task killers. Some kill automatically at the stipulated time and others kill only when the user mentions specifically.
An Android operating system does not require a task killer for optimal performance. It can manage the apps on its own. In fact, by using a task killer to force-stop a process or a task, an additional load is added on CPU. And it consumes more power and consumes double the time to start again. Hence, by using a task killer, CPU overheats and reduces performance. 
So, don't use a task killer, instead use one of the following apps which can help to speed up your Android. 1. Android Assistant:

Android Assistant offers you a wide variety of tools and features which will help you boost your phone. You can monitor your phone's status and information regarding battery, CPU usage, memory used etc.This app provides you 3 tabs wherein you can monitor, process and control the tools. And, like any other booster app, it can clear cache, browser history, install/uninstall in bulk.Can support Android 6.0 Marshmallow<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.advancedprocessmanager">Download Android Assistant</a> 2. RedGreen:
RedGreen has been quite a popular <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unfoldlabs.redgreen">booster app</a> in recent times. This is the easiest app to use with a very easy user interface. It also has been a Finalist at CTIA Tech Awards 2016!! You can easily make your phone more efficient by reclaiming the storage space. Red Green portrays many features like App Manager, Battery Saver, Junk Cleaner, Data Security and best of all Facebook Optimizer. One touch you can deny all the unnecessary permissions. Moreover, this app is compatible with all the Android devices - Smartphone, Tablet etc.Now, you can easily lock the required apps on your device individually.
Its USP is Facebook Optimization. It has been reported that the Facebook app drains 20% of our battery and reduces the performance of other apps by 15%So, UnfoldLabs has come up with this unique app which can optimize your Facebook app.<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unfoldlabs.redgreen">Download RedGreen- Best App Cleaner</a> 3. Speed Booster:
Speed Booster claims to accelerate your phone faster by 50%. It helps you with deep power clean with just one click.Now, clean all your junk files and folders, easily and free up RAM. It can even boost up the other games and apps available on your device.Like any other booster app, it also acts as an app manager, battery saver, CPU cooler and cache cleaner.Speed booster has a very easy user interface and uses less than 3MB of your phone.<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.litetools.speed.booster">Download Speed Booster</a> 4. Avast:
Avast has been popular among the desktop folks. However, it has come up with a powerful booster app for Android mobiles as well. It can free up to 12GB and make your RAM perform faster by 20%. It does act like any other booster app but also has special features. It can detect hazy pics in your gallery and removes bad photos to free up space. It removes pre-installed bloatware and other apps that are not in use. Avast claims to save your battery life by 60%<a href="https://www.avast.com/en-us/cleanup-android?ref=cj&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=commissionjunction&amp;utm_campaign=8186513&amp;couponfield=yes&amp;cjevent=f13b7dc5149a11e980c400600a180513">Download Avast Cleanup for Android</a> 5. RAM Master:
RAM Master is a memory optimizer which can free up the required space immediately and speed up the device. It checks the phone temperature and responds accordingly. It can automatically trigger the RAM master to cool the CPU and save it from overheat. It’s also an effective speed booster for new apps and photos.<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedbooster.optimizer">Download RAM Master</a>

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Too many real estate professionals shy away from blogging because they believe they do not have the time or the ability to get the job done. It's not a problem if you learn how to do it and where to get your content ideas. Before you choose a blogging platform or software, check out these basic real estate blogging tips. You'll get off to a faster start to a highly effective and interesting real estate blog for your area.

01 What Types of Content, or Posts Will You Need and How Much Time is Required?
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Don't start a blog unless you're ready to spend the time necessary to post regularly. In most cases, several posts each week will produce the best results for both readers and search engines. A bare minimum should be one post per week, though.

There are so many great topics and items of interest about which you can write. It's best not to make it a blog totally about real estate. Just jotting down the questions you're asked by clients and customers is one way to get content ideas. Each answer is a blog post.


02 How Much Will It Cost to Do it Right?
Woman sitting looking at laptop with one arm up in the air in celebration
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Actually, the cost is the least concern, as it's quite inexpensive. Think twice before using a free blogging platform, though.

These days, you can host a WordPress blogging platform on multiple vendor hosting sites for less than $60 per year.


03 Take These Blogging Tips to the Bank!
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If you enjoy what you do, like to talk about it and want to share your knowledge with others, real estate blogging is for you! Keep a few basic concepts in mind and then just jump right in. There are ways to get help from the community, too.

You can position yourself as the local real estate expert by posting regularly about the transaction process and local market trends.


04 Clients and Prospects Will Help With Your Blog
man holding Q in one hand and A in the other
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Just think about the number of times each week that you answer a question about real estate or your market area for a prospect or client. There's gold in those questions. It's only a matter of getting them noted down until you can convert a question to a blog post. Read the article linked above for another benefit of this strategy.

Tips for Successful Real Estate Blogging

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