The 1st of June 2015 Stefano Ruberto presented our last study on hybrid mobile Apps in the Google Play Store. The paper has been presented at MobileSoft 2015, the ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems, sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT.

Here you can download the paper: https://www.ivanomalavolta.com/files/papers/MobileSoft_2015.pdf, and here you can find the slides of the presentation:



Abstract. One of the most intriguing challenges in mobile apps development is its fragmentation with respect to mobile platforms (e.g., Android, Apple iOS, Windows Phone). Large companies like IBM and Adobe and a growing community of developers advocate hybrid mobile apps development as a possible solution to mobile platforms fragmentation. Hybrid mobile apps are consistent across platforms and built on web standards. How hybrid apps are performing in production settings is still highly debated, with limited objective evidence.
In this paper, we present the first empirical investigation into mobile hybrid apps involving a large number of mobile apps. Our goal is exploratory and we aim at identifying, analysing, and understanding the traits and distinctions of publicly available hybrid mobile apps within their real-life context. The study has been conducted by mining 11,917 free apps and their related metadata from the Google Play Store, and analyzing them from both a technical and end users’ perception perspective.