Android Based Mobile Application Development and Its Security

International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology- volume3Issue3- 2012

ANDROID BASED MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT and its SECURITY

Suhas Holla#1, Mahima M Katti#2

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Department of Information Science & Engg, R V College of Engineering Bangalore, India can be used to create innovative and dynamic third party applications. Mobile Development India has worked extensively on projects ranging from gaming software, organizers, media players, picture editors to go-cart devices and more. II. BACKGROUND STUDY The platform was officially announced and the SDK tools were available in October 2008. Currently there is only one mobile phone that runs the Android OS, the G1 from TMobile. According to the official Android website (Android 2008) the platform is based into the four core features as shown in the Fig 1:

Abstract— In the advancing world of technology, Mobile applications are a rapidly growing segment of the global mobile market. Mobile applications are evolving at a meteor pace to give users a rich and fast user experience. In this paper, Android mobile platform for the mobile application development, layered approach and the details of security information for Android is discussed. Google released Android which is an open-source mobile phone operating system with Linux-based platform. It consists of the operating system, middleware, and user interface and application software. Certainly, Android is about to become the most widely used OS on mobile phones, but with Android comes a security vulnerability that few users take into account. On Android Market, where you can download thousands of applications for Android, anyone can upload their programs without having to submit them to careful security checks. This makes Android a prime target for computer criminals. In this paper, we discuss a layered approach for android application development where we can develop application which downloads data from the server. Also an Android Application Sandbox...