In recent years, mobile devices, such as smart phones, have spread at an exponential rate. The most used system running on these devices, accounting for almost 80% of market share for smart phones world-wide, is the Android software stack. This system runs Android applications that users download from an application market. The system is called a permission-based system since it limits access t...

Android is a popular mobile-device platform developed by Google. Android’s application model is designed to encourage applications to share their code and data with other applications. While such sharing can be tightly controlled with permissions, in general users cannot determine what applications will do with their data, and thereby cannot decide what permissions such applications should run ...

The Android operating system runs atop the Linux kernel, yet lacks the ability to natively execute standard Linux desktop applications. Though efforts have been made to enable this functionality, all approaches to date require a user to switch to a separate desktop environment, resulting in a substantial loss of interface consistency and usability. This paper describes DebianRunner, an Android ...