Are free Android app security analysis tools effective in detecting known vulnerabilities?

Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath, Joydeep Mitra. Are free Android app security analysis tools effective in detecting known vulnerabilities?. Empirical Software Engineering, 25(1):178-219, 2020. [doi]

@article{RanganathM20,
  title = {Are free Android app security analysis tools effective in detecting known vulnerabilities?},
  author = {Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath and Joydeep Mitra},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.1007/s10664-019-09749-y},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09749-y},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/RanganathM20},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Empirical Software Engineering},
  volume = {25},
  number = {1},
  pages = {178-219},
}