Paper Info
Title
Aladdin: automating release of Android deep links to in-app content.
Abstract
Unlike the Web where each web page has a global URL to reach, a specific \"content page\" inside a mobile app cannot be opened unless the user explores the app with several operations from the landing page. Recently, deep links have been advocated by major companies to enable targeting and opening a specific page of an app externally with an accessible uniform resource identifier (URI). In this paper, we present an empirical study of deep links over 20,000 Android apps, and find that deep links do not get wide adoption among current Android apps, and non-trivial manual efforts are required for app developers to support deep links. To address such an issue, we propose the Aladdin approach and supporting tool to release deep links to access arbitrary locations of existing apps. We evaluate Aladdin with popular apps and demonstrate its effectiveness and performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.107
ICSE (Companion Volume)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Deep link, Android apps, Program analysis
World Wide Web,Landing page,Mobile app,Android (operating system),Web page,Computer science,Mobile deep linking,Program analysis,Multimedia,Empirical research,Mobile telephony
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2574-1926
978-1-5386-1590-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Ma121620.25
Xuanzhe Liu268957.53
Ziniu Hu39011.15
Dian Yang400.34
Gang Huang51223110.80
Yunxin Liu669454.18
Tao Xie75978304.97