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Security Enhanced (SE) Android Released by National Security Agency (NSA)

The first version of Android Security Enhanced was released by The National Security Agency (NSA). The main feature of the system is to minimize the impact of security holes on Android devices. In order to limit the damage that can be done by flawed or malicious apps and to enforce the separation between apps the Security Enhanced (SE) Android project is enabling the use of SELinux in Android.

A new Project Python For Android

A project named Python For Android has been launched to create a package of your Python app into .apk. It is a Open Source project under the maintenance of Kivy Organisation. It currently only has one bootstrap which decompresses the packed application's files and creates an OpenGL ES 2.0 surface for drawing and it also sets audio and touch events to be accessed.