Which Android App Store Can Be Trusted in China?

Ng, Yi Ying; Zhou, Hucheng; Zhiyuan, Ji; Luo, Huan; Dong, Yuan

doi:10.1109/compsac.2014.95

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The authors also found that popularity followed a power-law distribution against app price, for paid apps. Ng et al [173] looked into the safety of third-party Android stores by downloading the top apps from Google Play and 20 other third-party Chinese Android app stores. They compared the APKs to check whether they were the same as the official releases, and ranked the severity level of differences.…”

Section: Inter-storementioning

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A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering

Martin

Sarro

Jia

et al. 2017

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

347

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App Store Analysis studies information about applications obtained from app stores. App stores provide a wealth of information derived from users that would not exist had the applications been distributed via previous software deployment methods. App Store Analysis combines this non-technical information with technical information to learn trends and behaviours within these forms of software repositories. Findings from App Store Analysis have a direct and actionable impact on the software teams that develop software for app stores, and have led to techniques for requirements engineering, release planning, software design, security and testing. This survey describes and compares the areas of research that have been explored thus far, drawing out common aspects, trends and directions future research should take to address open problems and challenges.

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Section: Inter-storementioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering

Martin

Sarro

Jia

et al. 2017

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

347

242

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“…Our selection strategy followed two main objectives: 1) collect apps with at least 50 releases to have enough data for a study on the evolution of the app over time; 2) produce a representative As previous literature showed that Google Play Store is a largely trustworthy [1,21,30] source of applications, we limited our dataset to the apps from this store.…”

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What did really change with the new release of the app?

Calciati

Kuznetsov

Bai

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories

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The mobile app market is evolving at a very fast pace. In order to stay in the market and fulfll user's growing demands, developers have to continuously update their apps either to fx issues or to add new features. Users and market managers may have a hard time understanding what really changed in a new release though, and therefore may not make an informative guess of whether updating the app is recommendable, or whether it may pose new security and privacy threats for the user.We propose a ready-to-use framework to analyze the evolution of Android apps. Our framework extracts and visualizes various information -such as how an app uses sensitive data, which third-party libraries it relies on, which URLs it connects to, etc.-and combines it to create a comprehensive report on how the app evolved.Besides, we present the results of an empirical study on 235 applications with at least 50 releases using our framework. Our analysis reveals that Android apps tend to have more leaks of sensitive data over time, and that the majority of API calls relative to dangerous permissions are added to the code in releases posterior to the one where the corresponding permission was requested.

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“…To run our preliminary empirical evaluation, we resorted to the Androzoo dataset [2], which comprises a collection of over 5 million Android apps retrieved from different sources. Since this study does not focus on malware, we selected the Google Play store as the only source to consider, given that several studies have shown that the apps distributed through this channel are largely trustworthy [1], [7], [10]. From this selection, we considered only apps with at least 50 releases, to have enough data for a study on apps evolution.…”

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How Do Apps Evolve in Their Permission Requests? A Preliminary Study

Calciati

Gorla

2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

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We present a preliminary study to understand how apps evolve in their permission requests across different releases. We analyze over 14K releases of 227 Android apps, and we see how permission requests change and how they are used. We find that apps tend to request more permissions in their evolution, and many of the newly requested permissions are initially overprivileged. Our qualitative analysis, however, shows that the results that popular tools report on overprivileged apps may be biased by incomplete information or by other factors. Finally, we observe that when apps no longer request a permission, it does not necessarily mean that the new release offers less in terms of functionalities.

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Which Android App Store Can Be Trusted in China?

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering

A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering

What did really change with the new release of the app?

How Do Apps Evolve in Their Permission Requests? A Preliminary Study

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