Josh Hickman's Public Mobile Test Images
Joshua Hickman · The Binary Hick
Access and status
Cost
Free
Free to read or download at source. No account, no purchase.
Status
Current
Current as at the verification date below. Standards and tools both move — confirm at source before you rely on it.
What it is
A maintained index of populated mobile test images produced by Joshua Hickman and linked from his blog: Android 7 through 14, and iOS 13, 14 (with a macOS Big Sur image), 15, 16 and 17. Most are hosted by Digital Corpora, with one iOS 14 set on MediaFire.
Who it is for, and when
These are the reference images the mobile forensics community actually uses to check tool output, because each one is a real device populated with known activity across the common apps, so you can tell whether a parser is right or merely plausible. Having a run of consecutive OS versions lets you show how an artefact moved or changed between releases — which is often the question in a mobile dispute. No password or registration is required.
What it does not cover
The page states no explicit licence or terms, and the author asks to be told about broken links, so treat availability as best-effort rather than guaranteed. Coverage stops at the versions listed, and there is no accompanying answer key or exercise — these are reference images, not a course.
Go to the source
Open at thebinaryhick.blog (opens in a new tab)https://thebinaryhick.blog/public_images/
Details
- Type
- Dataset
- Written for
- Working examinerWorking examiner
- Author
- Joshua Hickman
- Publisher
- The Binary Hick
- Topics
- datasets, mobile, android, ios, tool-testing, validation, macos
- Checked at source
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