Analysis of application installation logs on Android systems

Various researches and studies are conducted in various fields by analyzing system logs these days. By analyzing logs, developers and researchers can obtain system status and detect the abnormal status of the system. Generally, Logcat is used for analyzing the Android log. Even the Logcat has the advantage of being easy to be executed, it has the disadvantage of being able to check only the basic logs provided by the Logcat. In this paper, we design an installation log management tool and present the analysis of Application installation log files on Android systems. The installation log management tool collects log files which are stored locally and are accessible by only root privileges by using Android Debug Bridge(ADB) and Python. It also extracts the initial installation time, the package name, the used email account information, and etc. when Android Applications are installed.