Perspectives on static analysis of mobile apps (invited talk)

The use and development of mobile apps is growing at a tremendous rate in the last years. Even if this growth is making the mobile apps market very attractive for software developers, it is also continuously presenting new challenges. Indeed, mobile platforms are rapidly and continuously changing, with the addition of diverse capabilities like the support for new sensors, APIs, programming abstractions, etc. In this respect, a number of static analysis methods and techniques have been proposed in research as a powerful instrument for developing more qualitative mobile apps.In this invited talk we report on the results of a preliminary survey we conducted on static analysis methods and techniques of mobile apps.