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CALAPPA: a toolchain for mining Android applications

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Vitalii Avdiienko,

Konstantin Kuznetsov,

Paolo Calciati,

Juan Carlos Caiza Román,

Alessandra Gorla,

Andreas ZellerAuthors Info & Claims

WAMA 2016: Proceedings of the International Workshop on App Market Analytics

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2993259.2993262

Published: 14 November 2016 Publication History

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Software engineering researchers and practitioners working on the Android ecosystem frequently have to do the same tasks over and over: retrieve data from the Google Play store to analyze it, decompile the Dalvik bytecode to understand the behavior of the app, and analyze applications metadata and user reviews. In this paper we present CALAPPA, a highly reusable and customizable toolchain that allows researchers to easily run common analysis tasks on large Android application datasets. CALAPPA includes components to retrieve the data from different Android stores, and comes with a predefined, but extensible, set of modules that can analyze apps metadata and code.

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Scoccia GRuberto SMalavolta IAutili MInverardi PJulien CLewis GSegall I(2018)An investigation into Android run-time permissions from the end users' perspectiveProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems10.1145/3197231.3197236(45-55)Online publication date: 27-May-2018
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Calciati PKuznetsov KBai XGorla AZaidman AKamei YHill E(2018)What did really change with the new release of the app?Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories10.1145/3196398.3196449(142-152)Online publication date: 28-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3196398.3196449
Kuznetsov KAvdiienko VGorla AZeller ANagappan MSarro FShihab E(2016)Checking app user interfaces against app descriptionsProceedings of the International Workshop on App Market Analytics10.1145/2993259.2993265(1-7)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2993259.2993265

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Scoccia GRuberto SMalavolta IAutili MInverardi PJulien CLewis GSegall I(2018)An investigation into Android run-time permissions from the end users' perspectiveProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems10.1145/3197231.3197236(45-55)Online publication date: 27-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3197231.3197236
Calciati PKuznetsov KBai XGorla AZaidman AKamei YHill E(2018)What did really change with the new release of the app?Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories10.1145/3196398.3196449(142-152)Online publication date: 28-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3196398.3196449
Kuznetsov KAvdiienko VGorla AZeller ANagappan MSarro FShihab E(2016)Checking app user interfaces against app descriptionsProceedings of the International Workshop on App Market Analytics10.1145/2993259.2993265(1-7)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2993259.2993265

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