A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android

In this work, we report and study a phenomenon that contributes to Android API sprawls. We observe that OEM developers introduce private APIs that are composed by copy-paste-editing full or partial code from AOSP and other OEM APIs - we call such APIs, Replicas.

Authors

Yousra Aafer
Shaukat Khan
Syeda Mashal Abbas Zaidi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9871-6063)
Parjanya Vyas

Institutions

University of Waterloo (CA)

Publication Details

Published: 2024-10-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3691620.3695546
Primary Topic: Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Type: article
Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 0.00

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Canada Foundation for Innovation

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A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android

Yousra Aafer, Shaukat Khan, Syeda Mashal Abbas Zaidi, Parjanya Vyas

Oct 18, 2024

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

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A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android

Yousra Aafer, Shaukat Khan, Syeda Mashal Abbas Zaidi, Parjanya Vyas

October 18, 2024article en

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