Thursday, April 19, 2012

What's the taste of the ice cream on my sandwich? How Android 4.0 ICS improves (not so much) the handling of Wi-Fi proxy

Hi Guys! I know it's been a long time since my last post. I'm sorry but, while I was waiting to receive some answers on Android Proxy, I decided to spend an entire month exploring alternative ways of seeing the world around me.

Anyway, let's get back to work. Since I'm preparing a big summarizing post regarding the proxy support (be prepared!), I decided to write a more simple post, just to stretch my hands... 

Today I want to go back to the users (hey guys, I never forgot you!!), talking about what Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) changed regarding the Wi-Fi proxy handling.

To be honest not so much, just the addition to the default browser (and starting from yesterday also the latest version of Chrome) of the credentials for authenticated proxies, BUT unfortunately no changes on the API. So all the developers that want to handle authenticated proxies have to work with their hands at low level.