---
id: 4487
title: "Android Application Diffing: Engine Overview"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/android-application-diffing-engine-overview.html"
published_at: "2019-04-23T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["android", "tooling", "apk", "binary-diffing", "dalvik", "similarity-detection"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4487"
lang: en
---

# Android Application Diffing: Engine Overview

## Summary

First of the Android diffing series: challenges of similarity detection in Dalvik/APK code versus native binaries, and the design and benchmarks of Quarkslab's diff engine.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2019-04-23T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/android-application-diffing-engine-overview.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4487