Links 3/1/2014: Android News
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-03 17:00:34 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-03 17:00:34 UTC
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Software-wise, my choice for this on Android is Torque, an excellent app that not only can collect all the OBD-II stats, but also graph and log them in myriad ways. (There's also a free version, Torque Lite, that has a fair deal of the functionality of the full version.) Grab either one from the Google Play store.
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We got to thinking, how does one analyze mobile apps? To find out, we downloaded Santoku Linux, a Linux distribution crafted specifically for mobile forensics, mobile malware analysis, and mobile security testing.
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