Android Multi-Level System Permission Management Approach

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With the expansion of the market share occupied by the Android platform, security issues (especially application security) have become attention focus of researchers.

• In fact, the existing methods lack the capabilities to manage application permissions without root privilege.
• This study proposes a dynamic management mechanism of Android application permissions based on security policies.
• The paper first describes the permissions by security policies, then implementes permission checking code and request evaluation algorithm in Android framework layer.