Android Phone Forensic: Tools and Techniques

Today when there are more than 1 billion Android users all over the world, it shows that its popularity has no equal. These days mobile phones have become so intrusive in our daily lives that when they needed can give huge amount of information to forensic examiners. Till the date of writing this paper there are many papers citing the need of mobile device forensic and ways of getting the vital artifacts through mobile devices for different purposes. With vast options of popular and less popular forensic tools and techniques available today, this papers aims to bring them together under a comparative study so that this paper could serve as a starting point for several android users, future forensic examiners and investigators. During our survey we found scarcity for papers on tools for android forensic. In this paper we have analyzed different tools and techniques used in android forensic and at the end tabulated the results and findings.