There is an exponential rise in the use of smartphones in government and private institutions
due to business dependencies such as communication, virtual meetings, and access to …

Context: Mobile applications (apps) have become deeply personal, constantly demanding
access to privacy-sensitive information in exchange for more personalized user …

This work develops a static analysis to create a model of the behavior of an Android
application's GUI. We propose the window transition graph (WTG), a model representing the …

The Android platform facilitates reuse of app functionalities by allowing an app to request an
action from another app through inter-process communication mechanism. This feature is …

Permission-induced attacks, ie, security breaches enabled by permission misuse, are
among the most critical and frequent issues threatening the security of Android devices. By …

Mobile application security has been one of the major areas of security research in the last
decade. Numerous application analysis tools have been proposed in response to malicious …

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 …

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

Developers intend to improve the quality of the software as it evolves. However, as software
becomes larger and more complex, those intended actions may lead to unintended …

Android inter-app communication (IAC) allows apps to request functionalities from other
apps, which has been extensively used to provide a better user experience. However, IAC …