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Android applications are frequently plagiarized or repackaged, and software obfuscation is a recommended protection against these practices. However, there is very little data on the overall rates of app obfuscation, the techniques used, or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Dominik Wermke , Nicolas Huaman , Yasemin Acar , Brad Reaves , Patrick Traynor , Sascha Fahl

Like many desktop operating systems in the 1990s, Android is now in the process of including support for multi-user scenarios. Because these scenarios introduce new threats to the system, we should have an understanding of how well the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Paul Ratazzi , Yousra Aafer , Amit Ahlawat , Hao Hao , Yifei Wang , Wenliang Du

User Experience (UX) evaluation methods that are commonly used with hearing users may not be functional or effective for Deaf users. This is because these methods are primarily designed for users with hearing abilities, which can create…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-31 A. E. Fuentes-Cortázar , A. Rivera-Hernández , J. R. Rojano-Cáceres

In this paper, The mobile application field has been receiving astronomical attention from the past few years due to the growing number of mobile app downloads and withal due to the revenues being engendered .With the surge in the number of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Venkata N. Inukollu , Divya D. Keshamoni , Taeghyun Kang , Manikanta Inukollu

The login functionality, being the gateway to app usage, plays a critical role in both user experience and application security. As Android apps increasingly incorporate login functionalities, they support a variety of authentication…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Zixu Zhou , Rufeng Chen , Junfeng Chen , Yepang Liu , Lili Wei

The objective of this research is to explore the existing mobile applications developed for the COVID-19 pandemic. To obtain this research objective, firstly the related applications were selected through the systematic search technique in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Iyolita Islam , Kazi MD. Munim , A. K. M. Najmul Islam

Cryptographic (crypto) algorithms are the essential ingredients of all secure systems: crypto hash functions and encryption algorithms, for example, can guarantee properties such as integrity and confidentiality. Developers, however, can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Luca Piccolboni , Giuseppe Di Guglielmo , Luca P. Carloni , Simha Sethumadhavan

Mobile apps are essential in daily life but frequently employ deceptive patterns, such as visual emphasis or linguistic nudging, to manipulate user behavior. Existing research largely relies on manual detection, which is time-consuming and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jieshan Chen , Zhen Wang , Jiamou Sun , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Qing Huang , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

Identifying security issues early is encouraged to reduce the latent negative impacts on software systems. Code review is a widely-used method that allows developers to manually inspect modified code, catching security issues during a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Wachiraphan Charoenwet , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Van-Thuan Pham , Christoph Treude

App quality has been shown to be the most important indicator of app adoption. To assure quality, developers mainly use testing to find bugs in app and apply structural and GUI test coverage criteria. However, mobile apps have more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Danilo Dominguez Perez , Wei Le

Today's IoT systems include event-driven smart applications (apps) that interact with sensors and actuators. A problem specific to IoT systems is that buggy apps, unforeseen bad app interactions, or device/communication failures, can cause…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Dang Tu Nguyen , Chengyu Song , Zhiyun Qian , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Edward J. M. Colbert , Patrick McDaniel

Numerous tools rely on automatic categorization of Android apps as part of their methodology. However, incorrect categorization can lead to inaccurate outcomes, such as a malware detector wrongly flagging a benign app as malicious. One such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Marco Alecci , Jordan Samhi , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein

Mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) have gained significant popularity over the last few years due to its tremendous benefits, such as lowering healthcare cost and increasing patient awareness. However, the sensitivity of healthcare…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Bakheet Aljedaani , M. Ali Babar

With the increasing number of mobile Apps developed, they are now closely integrated into daily life. In this paper, we develop a framework to predict mobile Apps that are most likely to be used regarding the current device status of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Zhung-Xun Liao , Shou-Chung Li , Wen-Chih Peng , Philip S Yu

There is an increase in global malware threats. To address this, an encryption-type ransomware has been introduced on the Android operating system. The challenges associated with malicious threats in phone use have become a pressing issue…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Parick Ozoh , John K Omoniyi , Bukola Ibitoye

Mobile application performance is a vital factor for user experience. Yet, performance issues are notoriously difficult to detect in development environments, where they often manifest less conspicuously, making their diagnosis more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhengquan Li , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Never before has any OS been so popular as Android. Existing mobile phones are not simply devices for making phone calls and receiving SMS messages, but powerful communication and entertainment platforms for web surfing, social networking,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Xiaoyu Sun

Mobile devices have access to personal, potentially sensitive data, and there is a large number of mobile applications and third-party libraries that transmit this information over the network to remote servers (including app developer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Evita Bakopoulou , Anastasia Shuba , Athina Markopoulou

Perceptions of police trustworthiness are linked to citizens' willingness to cooperate with police. Trust can be fostered by introducing accountability mechanisms, or by increasing a shared police/citizen identity, both which can be…

Bandit algorithms are widely used in sequential decision problems to maximize the cumulative reward. One potential application is mobile health, where the goal is to promote the user's health through personalized interventions based on user…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-23 Gi-Soo Kim , Hyun-Joon Yang , Jane P. Kim