How Android Developers Handle Evolution-induced API Compatibility Issues: A Large-scale Study

As Android platform evolves in a fast pace, API-related compatibility issues become a significant challenge for developers. To handle an incompatible API invocation, developers mainly have two choices: merely performing sufficient checks to avoid invoking incompatible APIs on platforms that do not s...

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Published in:	2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 886 - 898
Main Authors:	Xia, Hao, Zhang, Yuan, Zhou, Yingtian, Chen, Xiaoting, Wang, Yang, Zhang, Xiangyu, Cui, Shuaishuai, Hong, Geng, Zhang, Xiaohan, Yang, Min, Yang, Zhemin
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	ACM 01.10.2020
Subjects:	Android App Analysis API Evolution Compatibility Issues
ISSN:	1558-1225
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