China is one of the largest Android markets in the world. As Chinese users cannot access
Google Play to buy and install Android apps, a number of independent app stores have …

The prevalence of smartphones has promoted the popularity of mobile apps in recent years.
Although significant effort has been made to understand mobile app usage, existing studies …

The continuing expansion of mobile app ecosystems has attracted lots of efforts from the
research community. However, although a large number of research studies have focused …

The Android ecosystem today is a growing universe of a few billion devices, hundreds of
millions of users and millions of applications targeting a wide range of activities where …

We present a growing collection of Android apps collected from several sources, including
the official Google Play app market and a growing collection of various metadata of those …

Application markets streamline the end-users' task of finding and installing applications.
They also form an immediate communication channel between app developers and their …

The prevalence of smartphones has promoted the popularity of mobile apps in recent years.
Although significant effort has been made to understand mobile app usage, existing studies …

To ensure the quality and trustworthiness of the apps within its app market (ie, Google Play),
Google has released a series of policies to regulate app developers. As a result, policy …

With the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), increasingly sophisticated and
powerful GPTs are entering the market. Despite their popularity, the LLM ecosystem still …

The high-fidelity sensors and ubiquitous internet connectivity offered by mobile devices have
facilitated an explosion in mobile apps that rely on multimedia features. However, these …