Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition

Libraries

The next layer in the Android architecture consists of Android's native libraries. The libraries are written in the C or C++ language and help the device to handle different kinds of data. For example, the SQLite libraries are useful for storing and retrieving the data from a database. Other libraries include Media Framework, WebKit, Surface Manager, and SSL. The Media Framework library acts as the main interface to provide a service to the other underlying libraries. The WebKit library provides web pages in web browsers, and the surface manager maintains the graphics. In the same layer, we have Android Runtime and core libraries. The Android runtime is responsible for running applications on Android devices. The term runtime refers ...