Due to their growing prevalence, smartphones can access an increasing amount of sensitive user information. To better protect this information, modern mobile operating systems provide permission-based security, which restricts applications to only access a clearly defined subset of system APIs and user data. The Android operating system builds upon already successful permission systems, but com...

In the forensic field of digital technology, there has been a great deal of investigation into the decoding of navigation systems of the brand TomTom. As TomTom is the market leader in navigation systems, a large number of these devices are investigated. These devices can hold an abundance of significant location information. Currently, it is possible with the use of multiple methods to make ph...

: The main aim of the proposed system is to assist the software development team to estimate the cost, effort and maintenance of the project under development. Android-based platform, namely MIT App Inventor is used for the development of application, which contains visual block programming language. The current study has following uniqueness of (1)Accuracy of results,(2)user friendly environme...

Usage of Android smartphones is more as compared to another smartphones due to its Open Source Operating System. Due to its Open OS, Android enables us to install third party applications. However, Security is one of the main concerns in Android. Security threats of malicious applications are rapidly increasing due to the nature of the third party applications where only developers can assign r...

The complexity and the number of mobile malware are increasing continually as the usage of smartphones continue to rise. The popularity of Android has increased the number of malware that target Android-based smartphones. Developing efficient and effective approaches for Android malware classification is emerging as a new challenge. This paper introduces an effective Android malware classifier ...

Since the surge in popularity of Android smartphones, creating Android applications and using location data in these applications have soared. Due to how quickly Android applications are being created, it is difficult for companies who have created forensics tools to keep updating their programs in a timely manner for investigators to use. This has created a need for a forensics tool which allo...

This thesis presents the design and implementation of a software framework for distributed reasoning on Android devices. The JPR Agent Library can be used to create agents directly from a Prolog implementation deployable on Android. Each agent contains a knowledge base(KB) and an inference engine. Knowledge sharing is facilitated through a simple message passing scheme. A sample Android applica...