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FIGUR E 2.2. Android software stack. Uploaded in Wikipedia by Smieh. Free license.
with touch screen inputs such as tap, swipe, pinch etc. Figure 2.2 depicts the architecture of the
android platform [30].
According to the Android architecture, the bottom most layer is the Linux kernel which is
written in C or/and C++. Howe Dr, upper layers such as android built-in apps are all written in
java.
Since Android is a free and open source platform, third parties can add functionalities and
do not have to rely on Google (ex: Multimedia Codecs, Sophisticated shell environment, etc.).
This means that it is much easier to both understand and build applications on top of the Android
platform. This is one of the main reasons why I chose the Android platform as the main testing
ground in this dissertation. Many concepts discussed in this dissertation can be extended beyond
the Android platform. For instance, application permission are used in many other platforms such
as Facebook apps, Google Chrome apps etc. [87] and concepts built on permission requests in this
dissertation can be extended into such platforms as well. However, for simplicity and to construct15
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Mohamed Issadeen, Mohamed Fazeen. Modeling and Analysis of Intentional And Unintentional Security Vulnerabilities in a Mobile Platform, dissertation, December 2014; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700067/m1/29/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .