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Android's permission system is designed to balance usability with informed consent, yet two legacy mechanisms still undermine that balance in Android 16: (i) permission groups that silently auto-grant new permissions within a group after a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Olawale Amos Akanji , Manuel Egele , Gianluca Stringhini

The packaging model of Android apps requires the entire code necessary for the execution of an app to be shipped into one single apk file. Thus, an analysis of Android apps often visits code which is not part of the functionality delivered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Li Li , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein , Yves Le Traon

Large Language Models (LLMs) based autonomous agents demonstrate multifaceted capabilities to contribute substantially to economic production. However, existing benchmarks remain focused on single agentic capability, failing to capture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Keyu Li , Junhao Shi , Yang Xiao , Mohan Jiang , Jie Sun , Yunze Wu , Dayuan Fu , Shijie Xia , Xiaojie Cai , Tianze Xu , Weiye Si , Wenjie Li , Dequan Wang , Pengfei Liu

Mobile task automation is an attractive technique that aims to enable voice-based hands-free user interaction with smartphones. However, existing approaches suffer from poor scalability due to the limited language understanding ability and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hao Wen , Yuanchun Li , Guohong Liu , Shanhui Zhao , Tao Yu , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Shiqi Jiang , Yunhao Liu , Yaqin Zhang , Yunxin Liu

AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long-horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not sufficiently difficult to meaningfully measure frontier…

Classifying mobile apps based on their description is beneficial for several purposes. However, many app descriptions do not reflect app functionalities, whether accidentally or on purpose. Most importantly, these app classification methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Md. Shamsujjoha , John Grundy , Li Li , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Qinghua Lu

Android's open-source nature facilitates widespread smartphone accessibility, particularly in price-sensitive markets. System and vendor applications that come pre-installed on budget Android devices frequently operate with elevated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alioune Diallo , Anta Diop , Abdoul Kader Kabore , Jordan Samhi , Aleksandr Pilgun , Tegawendé F. Bissyande , Jacque Klein

Mobile app development involves a unique set of challenges including device fragmentation and rapidly evolving platforms, making testing a difficult task. The design space for a comprehensive mobile testing strategy includes features,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Mario Linares Vasquez , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

Software applications have been playing an increasingly important role in various aspects of society. In particular, mobile apps and web apps are the most prevalent among all applications and are widely used in various industries as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Xin Li , Yuchen Ling , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

We introduce DRBench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on complex, open-ended deep research tasks in enterprise settings. Unlike prior benchmarks that focus on simple questions or web-only queries, DRBench evaluates agents on multi-step…

We present MobileGym, a browser-hosted, lightweight, fully controllable environment for everyday mobile use, targeting interaction fidelity without replicating proprietary backends. It enables two capabilities previously out of reach for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Dingbang Wu , Rui Hao , Haiyang Wang , Shuzhe Wu , Han Xiao , Zhenghong Li , Bojiang Zhou , Zheng Ju , Zichen Liu , Lue Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang

GUI grounding is a critical component in building capable GUI agents. However, existing grounding benchmarks suffer from significant limitations: they either provide insufficient data volume and narrow domain coverage, or focus excessively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Beitong Zhou , Zhexiao Huang , Yuan Guo , Zhangxuan Gu , Tianyu Xia , Zichen Luo , Fei Tang , Dehan Kong , Yanyi Shang , Suling Ou , Zhenlin Guo , Changhua Meng , Shuheng Shen

We introduce REAL, a benchmark and framework for multi-turn agent evaluations on deterministic simulations of real-world websites. REAL comprises high-fidelity, deterministic replicas of 11 widely-used websites across domains such as…

The emergence of "vibe coding" platforms, where users describe applications in natural language and AI agents autonomously generate full-stack software, has created a need for rigorous evaluation beyond code-level benchmarks. In order to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Siddhant Saxena , Nilesh Trivedi , Vinayaka Jyothi

Android, the #1 mobile app framework, enforces the single-GUI-thread model, in which a single UI thread manages GUI rendering and event dispatching. Due to this model, it is vital to avoid blocking the UI thread for responsiveness. One…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Lingling Fan , Ting Su , Sen Chen , Guozhu Meng , Yang Liu , Lihua Xu , Geguang Pu

GUI-based models extracted from Android app execution traces, events, or source code can be extremely useful for challenging tasks such as the generation of scenarios or test cases. However, extracting effective models can be an expensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Mario Linares-Vasquez , Martin White , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

With over 500,000 commits and more than 700 contributors, the Android platform is undoubtedly one of the largest industrial-scale software projects. This project provides the Android API, and developers heavily rely on this API to develop…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Pei Liu , Li Li , Yichun Yan , Mattia Fazzini , John Grundy

While there have been various studies towards Android apps and their development, there is limited discussion of the broader class of apps that fall in the fake area. Fake apps and their development are distinct from official apps and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Chongbin Tang , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Lihua Xu , Yang Liu , Zhushou Tang , Liang Dou

The importance of mobile application (app) quality insurance is increasing with the rapid development of the mobile Internet. Automated test generation approaches, as a dominant direction of app quality insurance, follow specific models or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Mingzhe Du , Zimin Ding , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

Mobile GUI agents show promise in automating tasks but face generalization challenges in diverse real-world scenarios. Traditional approaches using pre-training or fine-tuning with massive datasets struggle with the diversity of mobile…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Guangyi Liu , Pengxiang Zhao , Liang Liu , Zhiming Chen , Yuxiang Chai , Shuai Ren , Hao Wang , Shibo He , Wenchao Meng