Adoption of third-party libraries in mobile apps
Aidan Polese, Safwat Hassan, Yuan Tian · 2022
Third-party libraries are frequently adopted in open-source Android applications (apps). These libraries are essential to the Android app development ecosystem as they often provide vital functionality that would take significant development time to implement otherwise. Researchers have mainly studied the prevalence and updates of third-party libraries in Android apps. However, no prior work investigates the adoption percentages of third-party libraries in apps and how they evolve. It remains unknown whether there are any patterns in third-party libraries' adoption percentages in Android apps.