he prevalence of smart devices has promoted the popular-ity of mobile applications (aka
apps) in recent years. A number of interesting and important questions remain unan-swered …

The prevalence of smart mobile devices has promoted the popularity of mobile applications
(aka apps). Supporting mobility has become a promising trend in software engineering …

Smartphone users are increasingly shifting to using apps as" gateways" to Internet services
rather than traditional web browsers. App marketplaces for iOS, Android, and Windows …

App marketplaces host millions of mobile apps that are downloaded billions of times.
Investigating how people manage mobile apps in their everyday lives creates a unique …

As smartphones have become indispensable personal devices, the number of smartphone
users has increased dramatically over the last decade. These personal devices, which are …

Smartphone users have adopted an explosive number of mobile applications (aka, apps) in
the recent years. App marketplaces for iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms host …

The Android platform lacks tools for assessing and monitoring apps in a systematic way.
This lack of tools is particularly problematic when combined with the open nature of Google …

prevalent smartphones have become the major entrance to accessing services on the
Internet. On smartphones, users can have two options as the clients, ie, native apps and …

Abstract We describe Device Analyzer, a robust data collection tool which is able to reliably
collect information on Android smartphone usage from an open community of contributors …

Understanding smartphone users is fundamental for creating better smartphones, and
improving the smartphone usage experience and generating generalizable and …