The continuing expansion of mobile app ecosystems has attracted lots of efforts from the
research community. However, although a large number of research studies have focused …

To ensure the quality and trustworthiness of the apps within its app market (ie, Google Play),
Google has released a series of policies to regulate app developers. As a result, policy …

Because of functionality evolution, or security and performance-related changes, some APIs
eventually become unnecessary in a software system and thus need to be cleaned to …

Android app developers recurrently use crypto-APIs to provide data security to app users.
Unfortunately, misuse of APIs only creates an illusion of security and even exposes apps to …

In most of the approaches aiming at investigating Android apps, the release time of apps is
not appropriately taken into account. Through three empirical studies, we demonstrate that …

Android developers are known to frequently update their apps for fixing bugs and
addressing vulnerabilities, but more commonly for introducing new features. This process …

Android apps are prone to crash. This often arises from the misuse of Android framework
APIs, making it harder to debug since official Android documentation does not discuss …

App updates and repackaging are recurrent in the Android ecosystem, filling markets with
similar apps that must be identified. Despite the existence of several approaches to …

Statistics show that more than 80 applications are installed on each android smartphone.
Vulnerability research on Android applications is of critical importance. Recently, academic …

Received Signal Strength (RSS) is considered to be a promising measurement for indoor
positioning. Many RSS range-based localization methods have been proposed due to the …