The Android smartphone operating system includes a Java virtual machine that enables rapid development and deployment of a wide variety of applications. The open nature of the platform means that reverse engineering of applications is relatively easy, and many developers are concerned as applications similar to their own show up in the Android marketplace and want to know if these applications ...

Research in Ambient Intelligence usually cites Multi-Agent Systems as control solution. This demo introduces a development kit that combines Android, JADE-LEAP, and game engines to create a simulation environment where different systems can be developed. The demoed software will enable agent researchers to look for ways of controlling the elements of an Android based Ambient Intelligence system...

As the most popular mobile platform, Android devices have millions of users around the world. As these devices are used everyday and collects various data from users, effective privacy protection has been a well known challenge in the Android world. Existing privacy-protection approaches focus on information accessed from Android API methods, such as location and device ID, while existing secur...

In the recent years, studies of design and programming practices in mobile development are gaining more attention from researchers. Several such empirical studies used Android applications (paid, free, and open source) to analyze factors such as size, quality, dependencies, reuse, and cloning. Most of the studies use executable files of the apps (APK files), instead of source code because of av...

Android is currently the most popular smartphone operating system. However, users feel their private information at threat, facing a rapidly increasing number of malware for Android which significantly exceeds that of other platforms. Antivirus software promises to effectively protect against malware on mobile devices and many products are available for free or at reasonable prices. Their effec...

Expecting the shipment of 1 billion Android devices in 2017, cyber criminals have naturally extended their vicious activities towards Google’s mobile operating system. With an estimated number of 700 new Android applications released every day, keeping control over malware is an increasingly challenging task. In recent years, a vast number of static and dynamic code analysis platforms for analy...

Android’s data cleanup mechanism has been called into question with the recently discovered data residue vulnerability. However, the existing study only focuses on one particular Android version and demands heavy human involvement. In this project, we aim to fill the gap by providing a comprehensive understanding of the data residue situation across the entire Android ecosystem. To this end, we...

The meteoric growth of the Android mobile platform has made it a main target of cyber-criminals. Mobile malware specifically targeting Android has surged and grown in tandem with the rising popularity of the platform [3, 5, 4, 6]. In response, the honus is on defenders to increase the difficulty of malware development to curb its rampant growth, and to devise effective detection mechanisms spec...

Android is an operating system that has been usedin a majority of mobile devices. Each application in Androidruns in an instance of the Dalvik virtual machine, which isa register-based virtual machine (VM). Most applications forAndroid are developed using Java, compiled to Java bytecodeand then translated to DEX bytecode using the dx tool inthe Android SDK. In this work,...

The prevalent usage of runtime packers has complicated Android malware analysis, as both legitimate and malicious apps are leveraging packing mechanisms to protect themselves against reverse engineer. Although recent efforts have been made to analyze particular packing techniques, little has been done to study the unique characteristics of Android packers. In this paper, we report the first sys...