—Android is considered as the leading platform on
smartphone market. Thus, it becomes a prime target by many
security crooks and its security becomes at most concern. This
research aims at assessing Android Security, especially the fact
whether Android’s folks are getting better or worse in delivering
a secure platform? In this research, we use data extracted from
National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to answer such question.
Surprisingly, the study discovers that 83.3% of reported Android
vulnerability is originated from third-party apps that runs on
Android platform and not inherently from the Android platform
itself. We also discover strong evidence that Android security is
getting better based on the declining numbers of reported
Android vulnerability and the reducing of Android vulnerability
Time-to-Patch.