A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android

Syeda Mashal Abbas Zaidi, Shahpar Khan, Parjanya Vyas, Yousra Aafer

Abstract

In this work, we report and study a phenomenon that contributes to Android API sprawls. We observe that OEM developers introduce private APIs that are composed by copy-paste-editing full or partial code from AOSP and other OEM APIs - we call such APIs, Replicas.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Zaidi-al:ASE24,
  author    = {Syeda Mashal Abbas Zaidi and
               Shahpar Khan and
               Parjanya Vyas and
               Yousra Aafer},
  title     = {A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {1821--1833},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2024},
}

A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android

Abstract

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