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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Evaluation of the Android Third-party stores : Specifically on the risks of Androidapplication / Evaluation of the Android Third-party stores : Specifically on the risks of Android application

Rong, Huan January 2016 (has links)
Android is an open source mobile operating system contributed by Google. In general, Google Play is the most secure place to download the mobile applications for Android system. [1] Products from this website are surely safe promised by Google Company. But there are many other third-party app stores around the world offering similar software. One incentive for them is that the security policy on different platforms varies a lot, and Android developers are free to distribute apps in any intended ways, which leads to a certain risk in the assorted stores such as malware. Therefore, it is crucial to know which application store can be trusted from the various app stores. [2] To support our research, a tool named APK Safety Test is developed to compare the APK files from different application stores with the version on Google Play. In this study, nine stores around the world are chosen and 20 various applications from them are checked in real-time by using the tool. From this research, people can learn the different risk how can be detected. Furthermore, this paper analyzes the result of risks how to affect the applications. Keywords: Android application, Android Stores, APK files, Risk

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