On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 5, 7:29 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there any way to retrieve the Intents used by intalled apps on the >> >> phone? For example, how do I know that one app could send an Intent to >> >> invoke Camera app or Email app or Text Message app? > >> But you could track this in the system, of course, which is what I >> assume the OP wanted to do.. > > Well, you can't really detect the potential (how do I know that one > app "could") due to the potential crossovers between inputs, data, and > code represented by things like intent objects and reflection. >
I spend a fair amount of time in research on static analysis of permissions in Android apps doing exactly this, ;-)... A number of other systems try to do the same.. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.148.2511 > You can however detect the actual attempt as it occurs, to a degree by > watching the logs, and more substantially by modifying the platform to > in effect breakpoint Intent sending. > Right, I think that's what I said, isn't it? I don't think I mentioned potential, just dynamically, which is, as I said, what I interpreted the OP to mean... kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
