Android is a bright young, vibrant, completely open source mobile platform packing warm chirpy waves in the world all around. Android is the first open source software toolkit for mobile environment. Economic Techno Commercial incentives through Market Android has been kindling a tremendous stimulations to technical developers worldwide and has promoted Techno Entrepreneurial influence to Devel...

Android malware is rapidly becoming a potential threat to users. The number of Android malware is growing exponentially; they become significantly sophisticated and cause potential financial and information losses for users. Hence, there is a need for effective and efficient techniques to detect the Android malware applications. This paper proposes an intelligent hybrid approach for Android mal...

Context: Due to the widespread use of Android devices, Android applications (apps) have more releases, purchases, and downloads than apps for any other mobile devices. The sheer volume of code in these apps creates significant concerns about the quality of the software. However, testing Android apps is different from testing traditional Java programs due to the unique program structure and new ...

The Android software stack for mobile devices defines and enforces its own security model for apps through its application-layer permissions model. However, at its foundation, Android relies upon the Linux kernel to protect the system from malicious or flawed apps and to isolate apps from one another. At present, Android leverages Linux discretionary access control (DAC) to enforce these guaran...

The market for smart phones has been booming in the past few years. There are now over 400,000 applications on the Android market. Over 10 billion Android applications have been downloaded from the Android market. Due to the Android popularity, there are now a large number of malicious vendors targeting the platform. Many honest end users are being successfully hacked on a regular basis. In thi...

Android has become the most popular smartphone operating system. This rapidly increasing adoption of Android has resulted in significant increase in the number of malwares when compared with previous years. There exist lots of antimalware programs which are designed to effectively protect the users’ sensitive data in mobile systems from such attacks. In this paper, our contribution is twofold. ...

Android operating system is one of the most widely used operating system these days. Android Operating System is mainly divided into four main layers: the kernel, libraries, application framework and applications. Its kernel is based on Linux. Linux kernel is used to manage core system services such as virtual memory, networking, drivers, and power management. In these paper different features ...

Day by day, smart phones are becoming an integral part of various fields in our life. The increased use of smart phones has raised the issue of security of data stored in android smart phones. Various techniques have been suggested for securing data stored on smart phones. Many of them fall in the category of android extensions i.e. making changes in the android operating system. While in some ...

The Android platform is an open source operating system, which is widely used on Smartphones. Android operating system usage and adaptation is rapidly increasing with a variety of applications. It also, allows developers to freely access and modifies source code. The open nature of the Android platform attracts attackers to do different types of criminal activities. The android users likely to ...

The Android platform is an open source operating system, which is widely used on Smartphones. Android operating system usage and adaptation is rapidly increasing with a variety of applications. It also, allows developers to freely access and modifies source code. The open nature of the Android platform attracts attackers to do different types of criminal activities. The android users likely to ...