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ASE 2020
Mon 21 - Fri 25 September 2020 Melbourne, Australia
Tue 22 Sep 2020 09:10 - 09:30 at Koala - Mobile App (1) Chair(s): Jacques Klein

Smartphone vendors are using multiple methods to kill processes of Android apps to reduce the battery consumption. This motivates developers to find ways to extend the liveness time of their apps, hence the name diehard apps in this paper. Although there are blogs and articles illustrating methods to achieve this purpose, there is no systematic research about them. What’s more important, little is known about the prevalence of diehard apps in the wild. In this paper, we take a first step to systematically investigate diehard apps by answering the following research questions. First, why and how can they circumvent the resource-saving mechanisms of Android? Second, how prevalent are they in the wild? In particular, we conduct a semi-automated analysis to illustrate insights why existing methods to kill app processes could be evaded, and then systematically present 12 diehard methods. After that, we develop a system named DiehardDetector to detect diehard apps in a large scale. The experimental result of applying DiehardDetector to more than 80k Android apps downloaded from Google Play showed that around 21% of apps adopt various diehard methods. Moreover, our system can achieve high precision and recall.

Tue 22 Sep

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09:10 - 10:10
Mobile App (1)Tool Demonstrations / Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
09:10
20m
Talk
Demystifying Diehard Android Apps
Research Papers
Hao Zhou The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Haoyu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Yajin Zhou Zhejiang University, Xiapu Luo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Yutian Tang ShanghaiTech University, Lei Xue The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Ting Wang Penn State University
09:30
20m
Talk
UI Obfuscation and Its Effects on Automated UI Analysis for Android Apps
Research Papers
Hao Zhou The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Ting Chen University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Haoyu Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, Le Yu The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xiapu Luo The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Ting Wang Penn State University, Wei Zhang Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
09:50
10m
Talk
FILO: FIx-LOcus Localization for Backward Incompatibilities Caused by Android Framework Upgrades
Tool Demonstrations
Marco Mobilio University of Milano Bicocca, Oliviero Riganelli University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Daniela Micucci University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano Bicocca