Asking for (and about) permissions used by android apps

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 31-40

  Stevens, Ryan ^a   Ganz, Jonathan ^a   Filkov, Vladimir ^a   Devanbu, Premkumar ^a   Chen, Hao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROID APPS; ANDROID MARKETS; MOBILE PLATFORM; SECURITY POLICY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84888986424     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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