Abstract
A large set of mobile applications (apps) heavily rely on services accessible through the Web via REST APIs. However, the way mobile apps use services in practice has never been studied. In this paper, we perform an empirical study in the Android ecosystem in which we analyze 500 popular apps and 15 popular services. We also conducted an online survey to identify best practices for Android developers. Our results show that they generally favor invoking services by using official service libraries instead of invoking services with a generic HTTP client. We also present which good practices service libraries should implement.
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Oumaziz, M. A., Belkhir, A., Vacher, T., Beaudry, E., Blanc, X., Falleri, J. R., & Moha, N. (2017). Empirical study on REST APIs usage in android mobile applications. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10601 LNCS, pp. 614–622). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69035-3_45
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