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Studying eventual connectivity issues in Android apps

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Mobile apps have become indispensable for daily life, not only for individuals but also for companies/organizations that offer their services digitally. Inherited by the mobility of devices, there are no limitations regarding the locations or conditions in which apps are being used. For example, apps can be used where no internet connection is available. Therefore, offline-first is a highly desired quality of mobile apps. Accordingly, inappropriate handling of connectivity issues and miss-implementation of good practices lead to bugs and crashes occurrences that reduce the confidence of users on the apps’ quality. In this paper, we present the first study on Eventual Connectivity (ECn) issues exhibited by Android apps, by manually inspecting 971 scenarios related to 50 open-source apps. We found 304 instances of ECn issues (6 issues per app, on average) that we organized in a taxonomy of 10 categories. We found that the majority of ECn issues are related to the use of messages not providing correct information to the user about the connectivity status and to the improper use of external libraries/apps to which the check of the connectivity status is delegated. Based on our findings, we distill a list of lessons learned for both practitioners and researchers, indicating directions for future work.

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  1. The interested reader can refer to (Sadeghi et al. 2017, Li et al. 2017).

  2. Note that Androids apps are prone to GUI lags and ANRs because of the single thread policy of the Android framework.

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Acknowledgements

Escobar-Velásquez and Linares-Vásquez were partially funded by a Google Latin America Research Award 2018-2021. Escobar-Velásquez was supported by a ESKAS scholarship, No. 2020.0820. Mazuera-Rozo and Bavota gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the CCQR project (SNF Project No. 175513).

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    Camilo Escobar-Velásquez, Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo, Claudia Bedoya, Michael Osorio-Riaño & Mario Linares-Vásquez

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    Alejandro Mazuera-Rozo & Gabriele Bavota

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Escobar-Velásquez, C., Mazuera-Rozo, A., Bedoya, C. et al. Studying eventual connectivity issues in Android apps. Empir Software Eng 27, 22 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-10020-6

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