The openness and extensibility of Android have made it a popular platform for mobile
devices and a strong candidate to drive the Internet-of-Things. Unfortunately, these …

Mobile applications (apps) often delegate their own functions to other parties, which makes
them become a super ecosystem hosting these parties. Therefore, such mobile apps are …

Due to the portability advantage, HTML5-based mobile apps are getting more and more
popular. Unfortunately, the web technology used by HTML5-based mobile apps has a …

In parallel with the meteoric rise of mobile software, we are witnessing an alarming
escalation in the number and sophistication of the security threats targeted at mobile …

Android security and privacy research has boomed in recent years, far outstrip**
investigations of other appified platforms. However, despite this attention, research efforts …

Mobile apps are increasingly created using online application generators (OAGs) that
automate app development, distribution, and maintenance. These tools significantly lower …

Mobile apps that use an embedded web browser, or mobile web apps, make up 85% of the
free apps on the Google Play store. The security concerns for develo** mobile web apps …

The Android ecosystem today is a growing universe of a few billion devices, hundreds of
millions of users and millions of applications targeting a wide range of activities where …

Consumer mobile spyware apps covertly monitor a user's activities (ie, text messages,
phone calls, e-mail, location, etc.) and transmit that information over the Internet to support …

Mobile operating systems provide developers with various mobile-to-Web bridges to display
Web pages inside native applications. A recently introduced component called Custom Tab …