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Title | ||
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APPCOMMUNE: Automated Third-Party Libraries De-duplicating and Updating for Android Apps |
Abstract | ||
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The increasing usage of third-party libraries in Android apps is double-edged, boosting the development but introducing extra code base and potential vulnerabilities. Unlike desktop operating systems, Android does not support the sharing of third-party libraries between different apps. Thus both the de-duplicating and the updating of those libraries are difficult to be managed in a unified way. In this paper, we propose a third-party library sharing method to address the issues of code bloating and obsolete code updating. Our approach separates all integrated third-party libraries from app code and makes them still accessible through a dynamic loading mechanism. The separated libraries are managed centrally and can be shared by different apps. This not only saves the storage but also guarantees a prompt update of outdated libraries for every app. We implement APPCOMMUNE, a novel app installation and execution infrastructure to support the proposed third-party library sharing without modifying the commodity Android system. Our experiments with 212 popular third-party libraries and 502 real-world Android apps demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency: all apps work stably with our library sharing model, and 11.1% storage and bandwidth are saved for app downloading and installation. In addition, APPCOMMUNE updates 86.4% of the managed third-party libraries (with 44.6% to the latest versions). |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/SANER.2019.8668009 | 2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Libraries,Java,Loading,Operating systems,Security,Facebook,Bandwidth | Android (operating system),Computer science,Upload,Dynamic loading,Third party,Bandwidth (signal processing),Boosting (machine learning),Java,Operating system | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-7281-0591-8 | 2 | 0.36 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bodong Li | 1 | 15 | 5.68 |
| Yuanyuan Zhang | 2 | 33 | 5.18 |
| Juanru Li | 3 | 179 | 24.07 |
| Runhan Feng | 4 | 2 | 0.36 |
| Dawu Gu | 5 | 644 | 103.50 |