Google Play Console: Insightful Development Using Android Vitals and Pre-Launch Reports

Harty, Julian

doi:10.1109/mobilesoft.2019.00019

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“…Aspects of the research were published at MobileSoft 2019 [9], WAMA 2019 [12], and in a jointly authored book in 2015/16 [11]. Extracts of Android Vitals data and reports have been made available to the research community.…”

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Improving app quality despite flawed mobile analytics

Harty

2020

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

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Analytics can help improve the quality of software; the improvements are affected by the fidelity of the analytics. The impact of poor fidelity may vary depending on the type of data being collected, for example, for crashes low fidelity may be sufficient. The mobile ecosystem includes a platform where apps run and an app store that intermediates between developers and users. Google's Android ecosystem provides all the developers with analytics about various qualities of their app through a service called Android Vitals that automatically collects data on how their app is performing. My research found ways to improve app quality through using mobile analytics, including Android Vitals. It also found fidelity flaws in several analytics tools provided by Google. They confirmed and validated some flaws and chose not to discuss others.

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Improving app quality despite flawed mobile analytics

Harty

2020

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

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“…In order to analyze the performance of applications, the Google Play Store provides developers with pre-launch reports after an application is published. Tests are carried out on different devices and for up to five languages [283]. Another tool that developers can use to judge the quality and performance of applications are Android Vitals.…”

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A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications

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Kechagia

Sarro

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IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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To ensure user satisfaction and success of mobile applications, it is important to provide highly performant applications. This is particularly important for resource-constrained systems such as mobile devices. Thereby, non-functional performance characteristics, such as energy and memory consumption, play an important role for user satisfaction. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of non-functional performance optimization for Android applications. We collected 156 unique publications, published between 2008 and 2020, that focus on the optimization of performance of mobile applications. We target our search at four performance characteristics: responsiveness, launch time, memory and energy consumption. For each performance characteristic, we categorize optimization approaches based on the method used in the corresponding publications. Furthermore, we identify research gaps in the literature for future work.

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“…Android Vitals was first examined by Harty [10] using a case study as well as identifying various flaws in the reports.…”

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“…The apps are Pocket Paint 2 , a simple drawing app, and Moonpig 3 , an app that enables customers to select, customize, and buy greetings cards. Some additional examples for apps published by the Kiwix project are available in a previous paper [10].…”

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Better Android apps using Android vitals

Harty¹,

Müller

2019

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on App Market Analytics

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Google provides Android Vitals, a set of reports and tools for Android Developers as part of Google Play Console. Android Vitals can help developers improve their Android apps after an app has been launched by providing information on how their app is performing in key areas such as battery use, performance, and stability (freezes and crashes). Android Vitals also provides various comparisons, including against global bad behavior thresholds, against various peer groups of apps, and across releases of this app. Developers confirm Android Vitals notifies them of relevant problems and they found it valuable even if they also use crash reporting and mobile analytics. The underlying data is used by Google to assess the relative quality of Android apps; and the perceived quality may materially affect the visibility of an app in the Google Play Store. Yet little is known about the tools. This paper outlines various experiences from the developers' perspective of using Android Vitals with several popular Android apps to help open discussions and suggest further research areas. It introduces an open source project, created as part of our work, that enables developers to download pertinent data, particularly crash reports. The data can be analysed both by the development team and others. A particular benefit of this tool is to make the data available outside of the Google platform, which allows developers and (indirectly) researchers to develop additional analysis techniques not currently provided by the platform. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Application specific development environments; Software testing and debugging; Empirical software validation.

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Google Play Console: Insightful Development Using Android Vitals and Pre-Launch Reports

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Improving app quality despite flawed mobile analytics

Improving app quality despite flawed mobile analytics

A Survey of Performance Optimization for Mobile Applications

Better Android apps using Android vitals

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