A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android
Syeda Mashal Abbas Zaidi, Shahpar Khan, Parjanya Vyas, Yousra Aafer
2024Year
Abstract
In this work, we report and study a phenomenon that contributes to Android API sprawls. We observe that OEM developers introduce private APIs that are composed by copy-paste-editing full or partial code from AOSP and other OEM APIs - we call such APIs, Replicas.
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