As mobile computing becomes an integral part of the modern user experience, malicious applications have infiltrated open marketplaces for mobile platforms. Malware apps stealthily launch operations to retrieve sensitive user or device data or abuse system resources. We describe a highly accurate classification approach for detecting malicious Android apps. Our method statically extracts a data-...

The boom in mobile apps has changed the traditional landscape of software development by introducing new challenges due to the limited resources of mobile devices, e.g., memory, CPU, network bandwidth and battery. The energy consumption of mobile apps is nowadays a hot topic and researchers are actively investigating the role of coding practices on energy efficiency. Recent studies suggest that...

BACKGROUND Currently over 50,000 mobile health apps are available worldwide. In general, they are considered as innovations potentially delivering benefits to patients. Physicians are considered as potential channels to disseminate these innovations to patients. However, physicians' behavior in this regard has not been studied. OBJECTIVES To capture physicians' attitudes towards recommending ...

With the prevalence of smartphones, app markets such as Apple App Store and Google Play has become the center stage in the mobile app ecosystem, with millions of apps developed by tens of thousands of app developers in each major market. This paper presents a study of the mobile app ecosystem from the perspective of app developers. Based on over one million Android apps and 320,000 developers f...

BACKGROUND Mobile phone use and the adoption of healthy lifestyle software apps ("health apps") are rapidly proliferating. There is limited information on the users of health apps in terms of their social demographic and health characteristics, intentions to change, and actual health behaviors. OBJECTIVE The objectives of our study were to (1) to describe the sociodemographic characteristics ...

In a connected care environment, more citizens are engaging in their health care through mobile apps and social media tools. Given this growing health care engagement, it is important for health care professionals to have the knowledge and skills to evaluate and recommend appropriate digital tools. The purpose of this article is to identify and review criteria or instruments that can be used to...

BACKGROUND Obesity remains a major public health concern. Mobile apps for weight loss/management are found to be effective for improving health outcomes in adults and adolescents, and are pursued as a cost-effective and scalable intervention for combating overweight and obesity. In recent years, the commercial market for 'weight loss apps' has expanded at rapid pace, yet little is known regardi...

Quality in software engineering, especially mobile application (mobile app, hereafter) development has been one of the challenges in development teams. As the using of mobile applications has been more popular nowadays, lack of attention to the quality attributes lead many customers to dissatisfaction. The main issue is that most attempts made to define software quality frameworks have led to t...

In recent years, smart phone market has risen and the demands of mobile applications increase sharply. Daily mobile applications have shown their great potential and influences throughout mobile commerce. Mobile TV app is one of the most popular mobile applications in the entertainment genre. Advances in 4G mobile network make high-quality mobile TV and video streaming apps prospective. With th...

Persuasive systems make it possible to change people’s behaviour. These persuasive systems build into mobile applications can use the technology available in mobile devices (sensors, always connected and always nearby). This paper investigates how a mobile application can influences the domestic energy consumption. The study consists of two parts: an interview and a literature study. In the int...