AndroidCompass: A Dataset of Android Compatibility Checks in Code Repositories
Many developers and organizations implement apps for Android, the most widely used operating system for mobile devices. Common problems developers face are the various hardware devices, customized Android variants, and frequent updates, forcing them to implement workarounds for the different versions and variants of Android APIs used in practice. In this paper, we contribute the \emph{Android Compatibility checkS dataSet} (AndroidCompass) that comprises changes to compatibility checks developers use to enforce workarounds for specific Android versions in their apps. We extracted 80,324 changes to compatibility checks from 1,394 apps by analyzing the version histories of 2,399 projects from the F-Droid catalog. With AndroidCompass, we aim to provide data on when and how developers introduced or evolved workarounds to handle Android incompatibilities. We hope that AndroidCompass fosters research to deal with version incompatibilities, address potential design flaws, identify security concerns, and help derive solutions for other developers, among others—helping researchers to develop and evaluate novel techniques, and Android app as well as operating-system developers in engineering their software.
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10:00 - 10:50 | DatasetsData Showcase / Technical Papers at MSR Room 1 Chair(s): Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati | ||
10:01 3mTalk | AndroidCompass: A Dataset of Android Compatibility Checks in Code Repositories Data Showcase Sebastian Nielebock Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, Paul Blockhaus Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany, Jacob Krüger Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Frank Ortmeier Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Software Engineering Pre-print Media Attached | ||
10:04 3mTalk | GE526: A Dataset of Open Source Game Engines Data Showcase Dheeraj Vagavolu Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Vartika Agrahari Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla IIT Tirupati, India | ||
10:07 3mTalk | Andromeda: A Dataset of Ansible Galaxy Roles and Their Evolution Data Showcase Ruben Opdebeeck Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ahmed Zerouali Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel | ||
10:10 3mTalk | The Wonderless Dataset for Serverless Computing Data Showcase Pre-print | ||
10:13 3mTalk | DUETS: A Dataset of Reproducible Pairs of Java Library-Clients Data Showcase Thomas Durieux KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, César Soto-Valero KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Benoit Baudry KTH Royal Institute of Technology Pre-print | ||
10:16 3mTalk | EQBENCH: A Dataset of Equivalent and Non-equivalent Program Pairs Data Showcase Sahar Badihi University of British Columbia, Canada, Yi Li Nanyang Technological University, Julia Rubin University of British Columbia, Canada | ||
10:19 31mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers | ||
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