Abstract
Android plays a paramount role in mobile internet era and it is an extremely comfortable operating system to deploy in mobile devices. More and more security problems have been taken place on Android devices, and lead to leak users’ privilege information. In order to survey the security situation of Android application, we have downloaded 1901 Android APK files from the application market for study. We present several schemas to protect Android applications and avoid others to invade smartphones.
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This work is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No: 61272067, No: 61502180), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program, Grant No: 2013AA01A212), the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou, China (Grant No: 2014J4300033), and the National Key Technology Support Program of China (Grant No: 2012BAH27F05).
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Fu, C., Huang, C., Tang, Y., Zeng, W., Wang, D., Yuan, C. (2016). Survey on Android Applications Security. In: Zu, Q., Hu, B. (eds) Human Centered Computing. HCC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9567. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31854-7_9
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