An operational semantics for android activities

Authors:
Etienne Payet;Fausto Spoto
Affiliations:
Université de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, France;Università di Verona, Verona, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2014 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
Year:
2014

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Abstract

We define an operational semantics for a large part of the Android platform, encompassing the Dalvik bytecode but also, and more importantly, the inter-component communication mechanism used inside Android applications. This semantics is intended to provide a formal basis for the development of static analyses that consider the complex flow of information exposed by the cooperating components of Android applications.