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Scalable Online Vetting Of Android Apps For Measuring Declared Sdk Versions And Their Consistency With Api Calls, Daoyuan Wu, Debin Gao, David Lo
Scalable Online Vetting Of Android Apps For Measuring Declared Sdk Versions And Their Consistency With Api Calls, Daoyuan Wu, Debin Gao, David Lo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
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 conduct a systematic study of this modern software mechanism. Our objective is to measure the current practice of declared SDK versions (which we term as DSDK versions afterwards) in real apps, and the (in)consistency between DSDK versions and their host apps’ API calls. To successfully analyze a modern dataset of 22,687 popular apps (with an …