Android security overview: A systematic survey
Xuwei Xia, Qian Chen, Bo Liu · 2016
Android is now the most popular mobile system and much attention is paid to its security. In this paper, contributions are made in three aspects. First, main work from 2010 to 2016 about Android security is surveyed. Second, a novel aspect proposed in this paper which divide the Android ecosystem into seven spheres. Third, it is found out that system development sphere, application development sphere, application usage sphere(including raw application and normal application usage) and data collection and usage sphere is of great concern. The manufacturing sphere and the administrate sphere lack enough attention. The most used techniques are taint analysis and permission related auditing.