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The Android ecosystem faces a notable challenge known as fragmentation, which denotes the extensive diversity within the system. This issue is mainly related to differences in system versions, device hardware specifications, and…

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Recent industrial and academic research has focused on data-driven analytics with smartphones by collecting user interaction, context, and device systems data through Application Programming interfaces (APIs) and sensors. The Android OS…

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In recent years, researchers have developed a number of tools to conduct taint analysis of Android applications. While all the respective papers aim at providing a thorough empirical evaluation, comparability is hindered by varying or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Felix Pauck , Eric Bodden , Heike Wehrheim

Mobile developers face unique challenges when detecting and reporting crashes in apps due to their prevailing GUI event-driven nature and additional sources of inputs (e.g., sensor readings). To support developers in these tasks, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

Although mobile ad frauds have been widespread, state-of-the-art approaches in the literature have mainly focused on detecting the so-called static placement frauds, where only a single UI state is involved and can be identified based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Feng Dong , Haoyu Wang , Li Li , Yao Guo , Tegawende F. Bissyande , Tianming Liu , Guoai Xu , Jacques Klein

Deep learning has emerged as a promising technology for achieving Android malware detection. To further unleash its detection potentials, software visualization can be integrated for analyzing the details of app behaviors clearly. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhaoyi Meng , Jiale Zhang , Jiaqi Guo , Wansen Wang , Wenchao Huang , Jie Cui , Hong Zhong , Yan Xiong

The rapid development of GUI foundation models and mobile GUI agents has spurred numerous evaluation benchmarks, yet most rely on simulated environments or open-source applications, leaving real-world closed-source applications largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yifan Sui , Xin Huang , Hongbing Li , Fang Xu , Jiahe Lv , Haolong Yan , Yeqing Shen , Litao Liu , Zhimin Fan , Ziyang Meng , Jia Wang , Junbo Qi , Kaijun Tan , Zheng Ge , Xiangyu Zhang , Daxin Jiang , Osamu Yoshie

With the increasing prevalence of fraudulent Android applications such as fake and malicious applications, it is crucial to detect them with high accuracy and adaptability. We present AgentDroid, a novel tool for Android fraudulent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ruwei Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Zhonghao Jiang , Ran Hou

In this paper, we present an Android application to control and monitor the physiological sensors from the Shimmer platform and its synchronized working with a driving simulator. The Android app can monitor drivers and their parameters can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David González-Ortega , Francisco Javier Díaz-Pernas , Mario Martínez-Zarzuela , Míriam Antón-Rodríguez

The ubiquity of computing devices has led to an increased need to ensure not only that the applications deployed on them are correct with respect to their specifications, but also that the devices are used in an appropriate manner,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Luke Chircop , Christian Colombo , Gordon J. Pace

Android utilizes a security mechanism that requires apps to request permission for accessing sensitive user data, e.g., contacts and SMSs, or certain system features, e.g., camera and Internet access. However, Android apps tend to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Jianmao Xiao , Shizhan Chen , Qiang He , Zhiyong Feng , Xiao Xue

The Android OS has become the most popular mobile operating system leading to a significant increase in the spread of Android malware. Consequently, several static and dynamic analysis systems have been developed to detect Android malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

XML configuration files are widely used in Android to define an app's user interface and essential runtime information such as system permissions. As Android evolves, it might introduce functional changes in the configuration environment,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Huaxun Huang , Ming Wen , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Android User Interface (UI) testing is a critical research area due to the ubiquity of apps and the challenges faced by developers. Record and replay (R&R) tools facilitate manual and automated UI testing by recording UI actions to execute…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zihe Song , S M Hasan Mansur , Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Yumna Fatima , Wei Yang , Kevin Moran , Wing Lam

We present the Android app TYDR (Track Your Daily Routine) which tracks smartphone sensor and usage data and utilizes standardized psychometric personality questionnaires. With the app, we aim at collecting data for researching correlations…

Android has been the most popular smartphone system, with multiple platform versions (e.g., KITKAT and Lollipop) active in the market. To manage the application's compatibility with one or more platform versions, Android allows apps to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Daoyuan Wu , Ximing Liu , Jiayun Xu , David Lo , Debin Gao

As Android has become increasingly popular, so has malware targeting it, thus pushing the research community to propose different detection techniques. However, the constant evolution of the Android ecosystem, and of malware itself, makes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Lucky Onwuzurike , Enrico Mariconti , Panagiotis Andriotis , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gordon Ross , Gianluca Stringhini

Mobile phones and tablets have become the most widely used computing devices, with a large predominance of the Android platform. As a natural evolution, the development of Android applications has surged and has become a major field of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Franz-Xaver Geiger , Ivano Malavolta

DroidDissector is an extraction tool for both static and dynamic features. The aim is to provide Android malware researchers and analysts with an integrated tool that can extract all of the most widely used features in Android malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ali Muzaffar , Hani Ragab Hassen , Hind Zantout , Michael A Lones

The Android platform introduces the runtime permission model in version 6.0. The new model greatly improves data privacy and user experience, but brings new challenges for app developers. First, it allows users to freely revoke granted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Sinan Wang , Yibo Wang , Xian Zhan , Ying Wang , Yepang Liu , Xiapu Luo , Shing-Chi Cheung