The smart phone is quite common with closed market in the past. The mobile phone manufacturers started researching for mobile phone system since Google Ltd. started to develop a completely free open mobile phone platform called Android operation system (OS). The world's major manufacturers and scholars began to study the Android OS to the smart phone on the mobile phone market. This has unlimit...

Mobile devices and their application marketplaces drive the entire economy of the today’s mobile landscape. Android platforms alone have produced staggering revenues, exceeding five billion USD, which has attracted cybercriminals and increased malware in Android markets at an alarming rate. To better understand this slew of threats, we present CopperDroid, an automatic VMI-based dynamic analysi...

A wealth of recent research proposes static data flow analysis for the security analysis of Android applications. One of the building blocks that these analysis systems rely upon is the computation of a precise control flow graph. The callback mechanism provided and orchestrated by the Android framework makes the correct generation of the control flow graph a challenging endeavor. From the anal...

The Google’s Android mobile platform is the most popular mobile operating system in terms of shipment of devices [21]. The Android platform provided significant advantages for consumers with respect to competition and features. Due to lack of knowledge and supported tools for investigating Android powered devices, the forensic investigators have struggled [1, 2]. In this paper, we present the e...

This paper details a survey of Android users in an attempt to shed light on how users perceive the risks associated with app permissions and in-built adware. A series of questions was presented in a Web survey, with results suggesting interesting differences between males and females in installation behaviour and attitudes toward security.

Mobile Accessibility for Android is a combination of a suite of accessible apps and a screen reader which provide accessibility on Android devices for blind and visually impaired users. Main functionality of Android devices is made available to the user through Mobile Accessibility's voice and Braille based UI. This paper describes the process of integrating this commercial product with GPII/Cl...

We present the design and implementation of the protocol for efficient resource discovery and job allocation in Application Level Active Network environments. The protocol is fully distributed and is based on the neighbour lists and small world topologies. Protocol is in XML for interoperability and extensibility; and was prototyped and first tested in the context of the ANDROID project thus, t...

Our purpose is to investigate the key elements for representing personal presence, which we define as the sense of being with a certain individual, and eventually implement them into robots. In this research, a case study is reported in which children performed daily conversational tasks with a geminoid, a teleoperated android robot that resembles a living individual. Different responses to the...

Smartphones have gained tremendous popularity over the last few years. In this growing market of smartphones, Android, an open source platform of Google which has become one of the most popular Operating Systems. Android is mainly used in smartphones and tablets. A worrying trend that is emerging is the increasing sophistication of Android malware to evade detection by traditional signature-bas...

Since the appearance of Android, its permission system was central to many studies of Android security. For a long time, the description of the architecture provided by Enck et al. in [31] was immutably used in various research papers. The introduction of highly anticipated runtime permissions in Android 6.0 forced us to reconsider this model. To our surprise, the permission system evolved with...