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Current mobile applications (apps) have become increasingly complicated with increasing features that are represented on the graphical user interface associated with application programming interfaces (APIs) to access backend functionality and data. Meanwhile, apps suffer from the “software bloat” in volume. Some app features may be redundant, with respect to those features (from other apps) that the users already desirably and frequently use. However, the current app release model forces users to download and install a full-size installation package rather than optionally choosing only their desired features. Large-size apps can not only increase the local resource consumption, such as CPU, memory, and energy, but also inevitably compromise the user experience, such as the slow load time in the app. In this article, we first conduct an empirical study to characterize the app feature usage when users interact …