Application Development Questions

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge, that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a device without the consumer's knowledge

Spyware is mostly used for the purposes of tracking and storing Internet users' movements on the Web and serving up pop-up ads to Internet users. Whenever spyware is used for malicious purposes, its presence is typically hidden from the user and can be difficult to detect. Some spyware, such as keyloggers, may be installed by the owner of a shared, corporate, or public computer intentionally in order to monitor users.

 These are the essential items that are present each time an Android project is created:

- AndroidManifest.xml

- build.xml

- bin/

- src/

- res/

- assets/

- AIDL is the abbreviation for Android Interface Definition Language. 

- It handles the interface requirements between a client and a service to communicate at the same level through interprocess communication. 

- The process involves breaking down objects into primitives that are Android understandable.

AIDL supports following data types:

- String

- List

- Map

- CharSequence

- All native Java data types like int,long, char and Boolean

 UI Automation API is used to automate test procedures. Tests scripts are written in JavaScript to the UI Automation API.  This in turn simulates user interaction with the application and returns log information to the host computer.