Scalable online vetting of Android apps for measuring declared SDK versions and their consistency with API calls

• Main Authors: WU, Daoyuan, GAO, Debin, LO, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: SDK version; API call; Android fragmentation; App analysis; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Computer Sciences; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5880; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6889/viewcontent/Scalable_online_vetting_of_Android_apps.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Android has been the most popular smartphone system with multiple platform versions active in the market. To manage the application’s compatibility with one or more platform versions, Android allows apps to declare the supported platform SDK versions in their manifest files. In this paper, we conduc...