Pravaaha
Yash Lamba, Manisha Khattar, Ashish Sureka · 2015
Software libraries and frameworks, consisting of a collection of Class and Interface definitions, provide a mechanism for code reuse by providing methods, APIs, components (generic functionality) and a support structure for developers to build applications, products and solutions. KitKat, Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, Honeycomb and Gingerbread are different versions (open-source) of Android, one of the most popular mobile platforms in the world. In this paper, we present the results of our large-scale (consisting of 1, 120 open-source applications and 17.4 million lines of code) API usage analysis of Android applications. Our work is motivated by the need to mine actual Android API usage, frequent API call usage patterns and trends to understand and generate empirical data on how developers are using the mobile platform in their applications.