Ariadnima — Android Component Flow Reconstruction and Visualization

Android applications are built with a set of different component types that serve specific purposes. Thanks to Android's system design they can interact with each other in a variety of ways, which makes it possible to complete complex tasks. The downside of the flexible interconnectivity of system components is that the relationship between them can be very complex and hard to understand. To give a better understanding of the interconnectivity of components, this work focuses on the reconstruction of relationships between the components of an app. Our approach focusses on real world applications by minimizing the need for complex calculations (e.g., flow analysis) where possible. On the basis of static code analysis component transitions will be reconstructed, and in a second step these transitions are then visualized to allow an analyst to easily understand the relationships of the app's components.