MiniMon: Minimizing Android Applications with Intelligent Monitoring-Based Debloating
Jiakun Liu, Zicheng Zhang, Xing Hu, Ferdian Thung, Shahar Maoz, Debin Gao, Eran Toch, Zhipeng Zhao, David Lo · 2024
The size of Android applications is getting larger to fulfill the requirements of various users. However, not all the features of the applications are needed and desired by a specific user. The unnecessary and non-desired features can increase the attack surface and consume system resources such as storage and memory. To address this issue, we propose a framework, MiniMon, to debloat unnecessary features from an Android app based on the logs of specific users' interactions with the app.