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 …

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 …

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 …

With the introduction of Android 5 Lollipop, the Android Runtime (ART) superseded the
Dalvik Virtual Machine (DVM) by introducing ahead-of-time compilation and native …

Android applications (APPS) are in widespread use and have enriched our life. To ensure
the quality and security of the apps, many approaches have been proposed in recent years …

Dynamic taint analysis (DTA), as a mainstream information flow tracking technique, has
been widely used in mobile security. On the Android platform, the existing DTA approaches …

Buggy and flawed third-party libraries increase their host app's attack surface and put the
users' privacy at risk. To avert this risk, libraries have to be kept updated to their newest …

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 …

Application repackaging is a severe threat to Android users and the market. Not only does it
infringe on intellectual property, but it is also one of the most common ways of propagating …

Recent developed application-level virtualization brings a groundbreaking innovation to
Android ecosystem: a host app is able to load and launch arbitrary guest APK files without …