Studying eventual connectivity issues in Android apps

Mobile apps have become indispensable for daily life, not only individuals but also companies/organizations that offer their services digitally. Inherited by the mobility of devices, there are no limitations regarding locations or conditions in which being used. For example, can be used where internet connection is available. Therefore, offline-first a highly desired quality mobile apps. Accordingly, inappropriate handling connectivity issues and miss-implementation good practices lead to bugs crashes occurrences reduce confidence users on apps' quality. In this paper, we present first study Eventual Connectivity (ECn) exhibited Android apps, manually inspecting 971 scenarios related 50 open-source We found 304 instances ECn (6 per app, average) organized taxonomy 10 categories. majority use messages providing correct information user about status improper external libraries/apps check delegated. Based our findings, distill list lessons learned both practitioners researchers, indicating directions future work.