Small Scale Analysis of Source Code Quality with regard to Native Android Mobile Applications.
Martin Gjoshevski, Tina Schweighofer · 2015
The popularity of smart phones and mobile applications is growing every day. Every day, new or updated mobile applications are being submitted to different mobile stores. The rapidly increasing number of mobile applications has led to an increase in the interest in overall source code quality. Therefore, we will present a case study, where we analyzed different open source Android mobile applications from different domains and different sizes. They were analyzed using the SonarQube platform, based on the SQALE method. We were aiming to research the overall code quality, the connection between lines of code and technical depth and the most common issues facing mobile applications. The results show that the majority of applications tend to have similar code issues and potential difficulties when it comes to maintenance or updates.