SURVEY MOBILE APP

App Crawler: Opening Mobile App Black Boxes

1 MOTIVATION A June 2011 report1 showed that on average, a U.S. smartphone user spent 9% more time using apps (on smartphone) than browsing the Internet (on PC or smartphone). This growth in app usage is fueled by an increasingly large number of diverse and useful mobile apps: there are more than a million mobile apps available today in major app markets and around 15,000 apps are released per ...

Driver feedback mobile app

This paper faces the human factor in driving and its consequences for road safety. It presents the concepts behind the development of a smartphone app capable of evaluating drivers’ performance. The app provides feedback to the driver in terms of a grade (between 0 and 10) depending on the aggressiveness and risks taken while driving. These are computed from the cumulative probability distribut...

Negotiating Mobile App Permissions

When people install an Android app on their smartphone, they are required to accept all permissions requested by the app in order to proceed with installation. That is, the consent mechanism of the app market limits the user to a binary decision: either take it, or leave it. However, there is often little to no information about the purpose for accessing this information, with apps often reques...

Mobile App Recommendation

Day 1 – Research Topic Discussion Mobile apps (short for “mobile applications”) are software tools that are specifically designed to accomplish a particular higher-level task from a mobile device. For example, Shazam1 is an app that automatically identifies a song currently playing in the user’s physical space and then gives the user the option to purchase the song/album online. As the usage of...

A mobile app development primer