Abstract
Due to the rich set of exciting features available in Android smartphones makes it possible to be used vastly by the user around the world and hence android occupies a large share from among other operating system based Smartphone. The popularity of Android smartphones is growing rapidly day by day and it plays a vital role in our daily lives. The feature-rich state of Android smartphones makes it possible to be used in criminal intended activities. The Android smartphones are merely used in criminal activities and hence it can be used as a solid source of digital evidence. A range of Smartphone's forensics tools are available in the market which can be used to recover digital evidence from the Android smartphones. In this paper, authors have made efforts to highlights the range of Smartphone forensics tools which can be used to perform logical acquisition on the internal memory of android based smartphones and then provide the comparison between Smartphone forensics tools on the basis of their ability to acquire data from the internal memory of Android smartphones. It has been found that there no tool available which can extract the complete range of digital evidence from Android-based smartphones.
Highlights
Android is a fast growing, feature rich and exciting mobile platform and operating system developed by Open Handset Alliance (OHA)
Android is an open source Linux based operating system which can be able to download and install the application from android application market, able to store user data on the device, most of the Android smartphones come with On-Device Storage
Android Operating System Architecture and Components Android software stack is composed of four-layer with five different components namely Application, Application Framework, Android Runtime, Libraries and Linux Kernel
Summary
Android is a fast growing, feature rich and exciting mobile platform and operating system developed by Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Android is an open source Linux based operating system which can be able to download and install the application from android application market, able to store user data on the device, most of the Android smartphones come with On-Device Storage (using NAND Flash memory). It includes an integrated browser, 2D, 3D graphics, multimedia, GSM and CDMA connectivity. The Android operating system includes Bluetooth, WiFi, EDGE, SQLite, Camera, GPS, Compass, Accelerometer, 2G, 3G, and 4G All these features are common in all android based smartphones (3), (4), (5). The above components of Android operating system architecture are briefly described in the following subsections (1), (2), (3), (6), (7)
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