Automatic Adding License Management Functionality for Android Applications

With the growth of applications on mobile devices, developers can easy distribute their applications by the various software marketplaces. Generally, the applications need some code to execute license management functionality, and so developers must learn how to add such license management code for each software marketplace. This has resulted in increasing complexity and development time of applications. In order to prevent the potential errors or bugs resulted from adding functionality, we designed an automatic process of adding license management code for an application marketplace prototype. Experimental results show the automatic process can repackage hundreds of Android applications efficiently and meet the requirement of the marketplace prototype.