No tracking in Android emulator

[Nuno Duarte]

Hello,

I'm trying to run TaintDroid on the Android emulator but after running it and starting the taint tracking through the start button of the TaintDroidNotify app, I see no tracking information output on Logcat, which leads me to believe I did something wrong.

At this point I'm running the emulator with the YAFFS2 filesystem, using the following command:

emulator -kernel kernel-goldfish-xattr-2.6.29 -system out/target/product/generic/system.img -data out/target/product/generic/userdata.img -ramdisk out/target/product/generic/ramdisk.img -sdcard sdcard.img -verbose

I've downloaded the sample app used in the demo video, but it still triggered no information display on Logcat.

Additionally, I also downloaded some other apps but at any point did TaintDroid seem to track anything.

I've also read that getting a previous version of the TaintDroidNotify app could be the solution to this problem, but after doing so, it also didn't solve the problem.

The version in question was taken from here:

https://github.com/TaintDroid/android_platform_packages_apps_TaintDroidNotify

Is this a version overly-outdated?

I would appreciate some help, as I think I tried most of the solutions provided in the group and still couldn't find a solution.

Thanks in advance,

Nuno