AndroSea

A tool for identifying Android Silently-evolved APIs

Tool running

• First download Android framework code base from GitHub or AOSP. Please be sure there are two copies available on your local environment, for instance git clone https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base.git FrameworkCopy1 git clone https://github.com/aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base.git FrameworkCopy2.
• Be sure Java 8 environment is available.
• Running the tool with the shell script under directory tool with three parameters, Android repo1, Android repo2, a txt file contain the pairwise tag names seperated by a colon such the file androidPlatforms.txt. sh runandrosea.h /path/to/framework/code/copy1 /path/to/framework/code/copy2 androidPlatforms.txt.