[Soot-list] Application classes vs library classes in FlowDroid

[Bodden, Eric]

Hi Roy.

This is a Soot issue, not a FlowDroid issue. Please refer to the first paragraph here:
https://ssebuild.cased.de/nightly/soot/doc/soot_options.htm

Cheers,
Eric

> On 11.03.2015, at 11:56, Roy Liu <royliudev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I want to ask about the differences between application classes and library classes in FlowDroid.
> The former can be listed by performing a for-each loop on Scene.v().getApplicationClasses(),
> whereas the latter can be listed by performing a similar iteration over Scene.v().getLibraryClasses().
> It seems that FlowDroid uses some set of heuristics in determining if a class is to be considered as either an application or a library class.
> 
> I have two following questions:
> - How does FlowDroid/Soot determine if a class should be categorized as an application or a library class?
> - If a class is considered as a library class, does that mean that it won't be subject to the data-flow analysis,
>   i.e. it will be excluded from the ICFG, thus making the class basically unreachable?
> 
> Thank you so much in advance for the help.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Roy
> 
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