[Soot-list] How to Speed up Flowdroid!

[Marc-André Laverdière]

Hello Modhi,

The android SDK includes a jar with implementation stubs of the whole
android API. This is a good (but imperfect) substitute for the JDK jar.

Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
Doctorant - PhD Candidate

On 09/17/2014 07:53 AM, Modhi Alsobiehy wrote:
> Hi Marc
> Thank you for responding!
> I did not get what you mean with the " Android stub jar"
> Would you please elaborate!
> 
> -Best,
> Modhi
> 
> On Sep 16, 2014, at 2:02 PM, "Marc-André Laverdière"
> <marc-andre.laverdiere-papineau at polymtl.ca
> <mailto:marc-andre.laverdiere-papineau at polymtl.ca>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Modhi,
>>
>> I use flowdroid on JavaEE applications and I had big problems like that.
>> The most important thing is to use the Android stub jar. Then, use
>> exclusions like a maniac. Disabling path building is also very important.
>>
>> Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
>> Doctorant - PhD Candidate
>>
>> On 09/16/2014 01:35 PM, Modhi Alsobiehy wrote:
>>> Hi Flowdroid users,
>>>
>>> I need to run flowdroid from command line to analyze 30+ of the top
>>> downloaded apps and it is taking a lot of time to run - 15+ hours!- for
>>> not so big apks- 5 to 16MB-
>>> To prevent any out of memory errors and speed up the process i am using
>>> these options: -Xmx4g and --nopaths
>>> Yet it keeps running and running and not showing any results - seems
>>> stuck after a while!-
>>> From your experience with Flowdroid, what are the best practices that
>>> speed up the process?
>>> Are you aware of any specific system requirements that could help?
>>>
>>> Your quick response is highly recommended!
>>>
>>> -Best,
>>> Modhi
>>>
>>>
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