AndroZooOpen: collecting large-scale open source Android apps for the research community

Pei Liu; Li Li; Yanjie Zhao; Xiaoyu Sun; John Grundy

doi:10.1145/3379597.3387503

AndroZooOpen: collecting large-scale open source Android apps for the research community

Pei Liu, Li Li, Yanjie Zhao, Xiaoyu Sun, John Grundy

Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity

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30 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

It is critical for research to have an open, well-curated, representative set of apps for analysis. We present a collection of open-source Android apps collected from several sources, including Github. Our dataset, AndroZooOpen, currently contains over 45,000 app artefacts, a representative picture of Github-hosted Android apps. For apps released on Google Play, metadata including categories, ratings and user reviews, are also stored. We share this new dataset as part of our ongoing research to better support and enable new research topics involving Android app artefact analysis, and as a supplement dataset for AndroZoo, a well-known app collection of close-sourced Android apps.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020
Editors	Georgios Gousios, Sarah Nadi
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	548-552
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450379571
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3379597.3387503
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories 2020 - Seoul, Korea, North Duration: 29 Jun 2020 → 30 Jun 2020 Conference number: 17th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3379597 (Proceedings) https://2020.msrconf.org (Website)

Conference

Conference	IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories 2020
Abbreviated title	MSR 2020
Country/Territory	Korea, North
City	Seoul
Period	29/06/20 → 30/06/20
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3379597 (Proceedings) https://2020.msrconf.org (Website)

Keywords

Android
AndroZoo
AndroZooOpen
Open-source

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Liu, P., Li, L., Zhao, Y., Sun, X., & Grundy, J. (2020). AndroZooOpen: collecting large-scale open source Android apps for the research community. In G. Gousios, & S. Nadi (Eds.), Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020 (pp. 548-552). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3379597.3387503

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Liu, P, Li, L, Zhao, Y, Sun, X & Grundy, J 2020, AndroZooOpen: collecting large-scale open source Android apps for the research community. in G Gousios & S Nadi (eds), Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 548-552, IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories 2020, Seoul, Korea, North, 29/06/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379597.3387503

AndroZooOpen: collecting large-scale open source Android apps for the research community. / Liu, Pei; Li, Li; Zhao, Yanjie et al.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020. ed. / Georgios Gousios; Sarah Nadi. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 548-552.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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