Development, testing and maintenance of Android apps: challenges, tools, and future directions

Abstract

Mobile devices have become a permanent fixture in modern society. As such, it is of critical importance that the mobile development process is made as frictionless as possible to facilitate the creation of high-quality apps for end users. This keynote offers a brief introduction to mobile development paradigms, surveys the major categories of research conducted to date towards improving mobile software engineering, examines open challenges, and outlines a roadmap of future work aimed to support mobile developers.