ZapDroid: Managing Infrequently Used Applications on Smartphones

Singh, Indrajeet; Krishnamurthy, Srikanth V.; Madhyastha, Harsha V.; Neamtiu, Iulian

doi:10.1109/tmc.2016.2591546

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“…ZapDroid (Singh et al, 2015) was developed to manage infrequently used apps on the smartphone by considering the apps' functionality and use frequency. Moreover Lulu and Kuflik (2016) developed a set of menu which helps users to ease infrequently used apps' finding process by cataloguing hints of the corresponding menu (app function, icon color, etc.).…”

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“…Taking iPhone as an example where each application screen can only display 20 app icons before grouping, there would need six screens to display 108 apps properly. In that case, a user may need to flip screens back and forth several times to browse the icon lists in order to find an app.ZapDroid (Singh et al, 2015) was developed to manage infrequently used apps on the smartphone by considering the apps' functionality and use frequency. Moreover Lulu and Kuflik (2016) developed a set of menu which helps users to ease infrequently used apps' finding process by cataloguing hints of the corresponding menu (app function, icon color, etc.).…”

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Agile Search: A tool for searching apps easily on mobile by gesture

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2016

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Enabling fast access to apps is important to smartphone users especially when there are a large number of apps installed on their devices. Several gesture based search approaches have been proposed to increase the search efficiency and accuracy with improved convenience, but their gesture-app mapping mechanism still largely relies on the textual information of apps. This means such methods can become less effective when a user is trying to locate rarely used apps as they may not be able to recall any textual cues about the app. Since apps are appeared as icons with text descriptions on a device's screen, there may have other cues that can be used to inform gestures for shortcut access to apps to overcome current text based search/mapping limitations. An initial study involving 24 participants to understand the impact of app icon designs on creating gestures as app shortcuts has been conducted. The results show that users not only tend to use visual cues presented in app icons to create gestures, but also create them based on apps' usage frequency and different icon types.Mobile touch gestures. Search app. Gesture search. BACKGROUNDAfter the emergence of touch screen device and rapid development of touch sensor technology, using touch gesture to interact with mobile device is becoming a dominant trend. Touch gesture is easy to use; can reducing user's recognize load and extend the input vocabulary; appears in an intuitive way. It is easier to be accepted by users due to, quieter than voice interaction, easier to perform than mid-air gesture, and would not cause spectator's attention. These advantages of using touch gesture to interact have made it more and more popular.Touch gesture is capable to fulfil many kinds of tasks, and has greatly improved user experience by making users' interaction more lively and interesting. In order to won users' heart, regardless of system functions that integrated in mobile systems (e.g., volume control) and those customized functions within the app all allowing interact action with a gesture. Evidence can be found that Apple and Android, the two giants in the mobile phone market, both enable system touch gesture for interaction in their mobile phone system to meet their users' need. Moreover, under the highly competitive of the app market, many app developers also provide touch gesture support in their app to improve their competitiveness.Many apps use gesture to serve their user in conduct different tasks, for example game apps use touch gesture to move an object (e.g., the Angry Bird), browser apps enable touch gesture to complete tasks such as switch between different tabs and go "back to" recently visited webpages, tool apps use touch gestures to achieve certain goal, such as the screen-locking apps allow users to use specified gesture as their secret password to lock their mobile screen and so on.Today, the number of these powerful apps that serve users in an elegant way has begun to shoot up, and this trend has no sign of change. Evidence can be found in the report of enorm...

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“…In addition, one may stop using many such applications. These unused applications can be detected as malicious apps [33]. Many of these unused applications may use resources, like the internet, geographic locations, call logs and other user permissions.…”

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A survey on android security: development and deployment hindrance and best practices

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Android OS is the most popular mobile OS for the past few years. Vulnerabilities arise with respect to the increasing functionality of Android OS, impolitic app development practices of developers, end-user incautious and interestingly remediation for the vulnerabilities has been introduced frequently as well. To mitigate security risk factor Google has been updated, deprecated and restricted many system level APIs for 3 rd party developers. Considering the consequences, this paper provides a wide overview of Android's system level app development, privacy issues, and guideline for the developers about what measure they should consider while developing apps. We also discussed the historical development of Android OS and the end-users role to maintain privacy and to minimize security risks.

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“…Many task managers exist to allow users to kill heavy background tasks. ZapDroid [62] automatically disables infrequently used apps. These coarse-grained solutions break app usability and suffer from well-known issues [24,15].…”

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Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

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The mobile app market is enjoying an explosive growth. Many people, including teenagers, set about developing mobile apps. Unfortunately, due to developers' inexperience and the unique mobile programming paradigms, a growing number of immature apps are released to users. Despite having useful functionalities, these apps exhibit disruptive behaviors that are inconsiderate to the mobile system as a whole, e.g., retrying network connections too aggressively, waking up the device too frequently, or holding resources for unnecessarily long. These behaviors adversely affect other apps running on the same device and frustrate users with battery drain, excessive cellular data consumption, storage overuse, etc. In this paper, we investigate Disruptive App Behavior (DAB) with a study on 287 real-world DAB issues. Guided by the study, we present DefDroid, a mobile OS designed to protect users from the negative impact of DAB at runtime. DefDroid monitors important app activities and tries to adjust app behaviors using finegrained actions (e.g., enforce back-off to continuous retries, decrease aggressive timer frequency) without breaking app main functionality. Our experiments show that DefDroid effectively curbs 125 real-world DAB cases with small overhead and marginal impact to the usability of both the misbehaving apps and normal apps. During a small-scale user trial, DefDroid also found 6 new DAB issues. We further deployed DefDroid to 185 real users through the PhoneLab testbed for 43 days and found DAB issues from at least 57 apps. CCS Concepts •Computer systems organization → Reliability; •Software and its engineering → Operating systems; •Human-centered computing → Mobile computing;

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ZapDroid: Managing Infrequently Used Applications on Smartphones

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