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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Marjan,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That’s an interesting case. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FlowDroid can handle several such cases using a trick: We inject code that emulates how the framework would handle the AsyncTask stuff. Have a look at the “soot.jimple.infoflow.cfg.</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>LibraryClassPatcher” class. AsyncTask is not yet implemented. Feel free to add it and open up a pull request.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Steven<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>M.Sc. M.Sc. 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Juni 2015 02:02<br><b>An:</b> soot-list@CS.McGill.CA<br><b>Betreff:</b> [Soot-list] Problem with constructing entryPoint<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_265203"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Hi guys,<br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266431"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266430"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266429"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266428"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266426"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266425"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266538"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266545"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266557"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266556"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266554"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266553"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266609"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266608"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266607"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_266606"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I ran into a problem with constructing entryPoint for performing analysis. The android application that I am analyzing includes AsyncTasks containing methods which are need to be analyzed. I used following code to construct entry point to run analysis:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_265203"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273059"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273060"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>SootMethod entryPoint = app.getEntryPointCreator().createDummyMain();<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273061"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Options.v().set_main_class(entryPoint.getSignature());<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273063"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>System.out.println("entry points are: "+(Collections.singletonList(entryPoint)).toString());<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273064"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Scene.v().setEntryPoints(Collections.singletonList(entryPoint));<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273066"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273067"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273069"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>But, the problem is that the constructed entry point dose not include all the methods and AsyncTasks. It only includes "MainActivity". I also tried the mentioned code in “<a href="http://www.bodden.de/2012/07/26/soot-custom-entry-points/%E2%80%9C" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273071">http://www.bodden.de/2012/07/26/soot-custom-entry-points/“</a>, but it does not work.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_273073"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I would be appreciated if you could help me in this matter. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_265203"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_265203"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_265203"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434217066301_265203"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Marjan <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>