Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2018

Abstract

Developing modern mobile applications often require the uses of many libraries specific for the mobile platform, which can be overwhelmingly too many for application developers to find what are needed for a functionality and where and how to use them properly. This paper presents a tool, named LibraryGuru, to recommend suitable Android APIs for given functionality descriptions. It not only recommends functional APIs that can be invoked for implementing the functionality, but also recommends event callback APIs that are inherent in the Android framework and need to be overridden in the application. LibraryGuru internally builds correlation databases among various functionality descriptions and Android APIs. These correlations are extracted from Android development tutorials and SDK documents with domain-specific code parsing and natural language processing techniques adapted for functional APIs and event callback APIs separately, and are matched against functionality queries to recommend relevant APIs for developers. LibraryGuru is publicly accessible at http://libraryguru.info, and a demo video is available at https://youtu.be/f7MtjliUM-4.

Keywords

Android (operating system), Natural language processing systems, Application developers, Domain-specific codes, Mobile applications, Mobile platform, Natural languages, Publicly accessible, Application programming interfaces (API)

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

ICSE '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings: Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27 - June 3

First Page

364

Last Page

365

ISBN

9781450356633

Identifier

10.1145/3183440.3195011

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195011

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