Ideas for Android Securty Project

Question

Hello everyone,

I am a student taking a course in Network security.As a part of my coursework I need to do a project on the security side of Android like developing a simple application which involves basic security concepts.

I searched for different ideas which I can implement on Android within a span of 2-3 weeks.I found ideas such as secure sms or mobile antivirus or mobile finder.I am a beginner with the Android development and thus I might require more time to develop these apps(Maybe a month)

Can anyone please suggest some ideas for simple security apps which I can develop within 2-3 weeks?

Thanks,

Ameya

Answer 1

I found ideas such as secure sms or mobile antivirus or mobile finder.

I have no idea what "secure sms" is. I have no idea what "mobile finder" is. Since there are no Android viruses at present, you do not even know what an Android virus would look like, and even if you did, you would have no way of stopping one.

I am a beginner with the Android development and thus I might require more time to develop these apps(Maybe a month)

"mobile antivirus" would require far closer to 100 developer-months than one developer-month.

Can anyone please suggest some ideas for simple security apps which I can develop within 2-3 weeks?

Create an application that iterates over all other installed applications (using PackageManager) and examines the permissions each application requests (using PackageInfo). Come up with profiles of sets of permissions that may result in privacy breaches (e.g., INTERNET plus READ_CONTACTS). Create an activity that displays all the applications in two tabs, one tab for ones with scary permissions, one tab for the rest. Those applications would be in ListViews; tapping on one would display the list of permissions for the application plus, in the case of the scary ones, why you think it is scary.