AndroZoo: A Retrospective with a Glimpse into the Future

[en] In 2016, we released AndroZoo, a continuously expanding dataset of Android applications that aggregates apps from various sources, including the official Google Play app market. As of today, AndroZoo contains approximately 24 million APK files, making it, to the best of our knowledge, the most extensive dataset of Android APKs accessible to the research community. Currently, an average of 500 000 APKs are downloaded every day, with our initial MSR paper counting more than 880 citations on Google Scholar. Over time, we have consistently expanded AndroZoo, adapting to app markets’ evolution and refining our collection process. Additionally, we have started collecting supplementary data that could be valuable for various Android-related research projects and that we are providing to users, such as app descriptions, upload dates, ratings, lists of permissions, and many other kinds of data. This paper begins with a retrospective analysis of AndroZoo, offering statistics on APK files, apps, users, and downloads. Then, we introduce the new data we are releasing to users, offering insights and examples of their usage.

Disciplines :

Computer science

Author, co-author :

ALECCI, Marco ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX

RUIZ JIMÉNEZ, Pedro Jesús ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX

Kevin Allix

BISSYANDE, Tegawendé François d Assise ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX

KLEIN, Jacques ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

AndroZoo: A Retrospective with a Glimpse into the Future

Publication date :

14 April 2024

Event name :

2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

Event place :

Lisbon, Portugal

Event date :

14-20 April 2024

Audience :

International

Journal title :

2024 IEEE/ACM 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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since 25 January 2024

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