The Android software stack is using hierarchical structure. As shown in Figure 10, the Android software stack is basically divided into 5 layers, which include Application Layer, Application Framework, Libraries, Android Runtime and Linux Kernel [51]. Basically, the Linux OS and a set of C/C++ libraries are exposed through an application framework to service as well as to manage the Android runtime and applications [52].
i. Linux Kernel
Linux kernel is sitting at the bottom of Android software stack. A modified modified version of Linux 2.6 is used by Android to provide essential system functionality that Linux bests at such as enforcement of application permissions security, low level memory management, process management and threading, network stack and a vast array of low level device drivers [3], [52], [54], [62]. On top of that, it also acts as a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that facilitate the interaction between the device’s hardware and the rest of the software stack to allow the Android applications to access as well as to use the devices’s hardware by using a simple API, regardless of the specifics of the underlying hardware [3], [52], [62]. Some of the kernel enhancements to Android include the following [108]:
a. Binder
It is an OpenBinder-based driver to enable the inter-process communication (IPC) in the Android OS.
b. Power Management
Android supports its own Power Management driver that is built on top of standard Linux power management. The driver has been optimized to ensure that there is no power consumption by the CPU if neither applications nor services require power.
c. Low Memory Killer
This driver acts as Android memory manager that scans the list of running Linux processes and ki...
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f. Notification Manager
It allows all the applications to alert the users by showing custom alerts in the status bar.
g. Activity Manager
It handles the lifecycle of applications which including the mechanism to help in preserving the state of the applications.
v. Application Layer
Application layer, which is on the top level in Android software stack is populated by a set of native as well as third party applications such as email client, SMS program, calendar, maps, browser, contacts, and so forth [52], [63]. All these applications are written by using the Java programming language but they are not compatible with Java programs written for the Java Standard Edition and Java Micro Edition platforms [62], [63]. The applications with the provision of classes and services from application framework are executed within the Android runtime [52].
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2. HIDS examine specific host-based action, such as what applications are being used and accessed in the kernel
It is also written in pure JAVA and can be used as a standalone library or client
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