Android Framework is a layer of software that exists in every Android system managing resources of all Android apps. A vulnerability in Android Framework can lead to severe hacks, such as destroying user data and leaking private information. With tens of millions of Android devices unpatched due to Android fragmentation, vulnerabilities in Android Framework certainly attract attackers to exploi...

In this report I discuss my Master’s capstone project, ChronoChat-android, an implementation of the ChronoChat instant message application for Android mobile devices [7]. ChronoChat-android allows communication in a chatroom cooperatively hosted by ChronoChat clients. As in other ChronoChat implementations, chatroom participants may be connected via an NDN hub; ChronoChat-android also supports ...

Smartphone usage has increased manifold upon introduction of Google’s Android. Since its introduction, Android has evolved at an outstanding pace in terms of application development, commercialization and market share of Android powered devices. Although originally developed for smartphones, now the embedded system industry has realized the capabilities of Android. Due to open source nature, ri...

Security is one of the main concerns for Smartphone users today. As the power and features of Smartphone’s increase, so has their vulnerability for attacks by viruses etc. An Android OS could be attacked by hackers: Because it’s Open platform, Users will access the Internet intensively and everyone can develop applications for Android. In previous technique described that how security can be im...

Android operating system is designed for use in mobile computing by The Open Handset Alliance. Android market has hundreds of thousands of Android applications and these applications are restricted only to the mobiles. This restriction is mainly because of portability and compatibility issues of Android operating system. So need of employing these countless Android applications on any POISX Des...

The security of Android has been recently challenged by the discovery of a number of vulnerabilities involving different layers of the Android stack. We argue that such vulnerabilities are largely related to the interplay among layers composing the Android stack. Thus, we also argue that such interplay has been underestimated from a security point-ofview and a systematic analysis of the Android...

Among the most significant smartphone operating systems that have arisen recently is Google’s Android framework. Google’s Android is a software framework for mobile communication devices. The Android framework includes an operating system, middleware and a set of key applications. Designed as open, programmable, networked devices, Android is vulnerable to various types of threats. This paper pr...

The “Identification of Alphanumeric pattern using Android” is a smart phone apps using Android platform and combines the functionality of Optical Character Recognition and identification of alphanumeric pattern and after processing, data is stored in server. This paper present, to design an apps using the Android SDK that will enable the Identification of Alphanumeric pattern using optical char...

The threat of Android malware has increased owing to the increasing popularity of smartphones. Once an Android smartphone is infected with malware, the user suffers from various damages, such as the theft of personal information stored in the smartphones, the unintentional sending of short messages to premium-rate numbers without the user’s knowledge, and the ability for the infected smartphone...