The invention of smartphones has opened a new market for mobile application
development. Amateur android app developers often do not possess knowledge of the latest …

Mobile devices are used more and more in everyday life. They are our cameras, wallets, and
keys. Basically, they embed most of our private information in our pocket. For this and other …

It is critical for research to have an open, well-curated, representative set of apps for
analysis. We present a collection of open-source Android apps collected from several …

Android is a successful mobile platform with a thriving application ecosystem. However,
despite its security precautions like permission mechanism, it is still vulnerable to privilege …

Android is nowadays the most popular operating system in the world, not only in the realm of
mobile devices, but also when considering desktop and laptop computers. Such a popularity …

Malware collusion is a technique utilized by attackers to evade standard detection. It is a
new threat where two or more applications, appearing benign, communicate to perform a …

Abstract Android Inter-Component Communication (ICC) is complex, largely unconstrained,
and hard for developers to understand. As a consequence, ICC is a common source of …

Inter-app communication mechanism allows app developers to improve Android apps'
usability and provide users with rich functions via interacting with exposed components or …

The wide and rapid adoption of Android-based devices in the last years has motivated the
usage of Android apps to support a broad range of daily activities. In that sense, being the …

Exported Activity (EA), a kind of activities in Android apps that can be launched by external
components, is one of the most important inter-component communication (ICC) …