Privacy issues of android application permissions: A literature review

Android is an application platform for mobile devices. It comprises of the operating system, software framework, and core programs. This platform uses permissions to hide precious information about the user from untrusted apps. However, to install an application, device feature uses permissions that are granted by the user. User has the ability to analyze permissions and abort the setup if the permissions are unfriendly or unrestrained. Android permission analysis schemes show a significant role to fight against these undesirable behaviors of untrusted android apps in the aspect of security and privacy. This survey attempts to deal with the android application permissions that are related security and privacy challenges. It includes various research articles published in computers and security, digital investigation, decision support systems, systems and software security, and information forensics journals in the last 10 years. The survey is based on the following considerations: research issues motivated by the scheme, the methodology used, ability of result analysis conducted, and android features considered for performance evaluation.