AndroClass: An Effective Method to Classify Android Applications by Applying Deep Neural Networks to Comprehensive Features

Table 1

A summary on specifications of AndroClass and existing methods.

	Snaz.	LACTA	Ghorb.	Zhu.	Wang.	ClassifyDroid	AndroClass
Number of features	5	1	1	6	11	1	14
Number of employed datasets	1	1	1	1	1	1	3
Utilizing stable features	✓	✓	✓	✘	✓	✓	✓
Features representing actual fn. of apps	✘	✓	✓	✘	✓	✓	✓
Posing issues to user privacy	✘	✘	✘	✓	✘	✘	✘
Classifying un/newly released apps	✘	✓	✓	✘	✓	✓	✓