Non-Essential Communication in Mobile Applications

This paper studies communication patterns in mobile applications. Our analysis shows that 65% of the HTTP, socket, and RPC communication in top-popular Android applications from Google Play have no effect on the user-observable application functionality. We present a static analysis that is able to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rubin, Julia, Gordon, Michael I., Nguyen, Nguyen, Rinard, Martin
Other Authors: Martin Rinard
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96909