DroidLink: Automated Generation of Deep Links for Android Apps

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.06928
• Publication Date: 2016-01-01
• Authors: Yun Ma; Xuanzhe Liu; Ruogu Du; Ziniu Hu; Yi Liu; Meihua Yu; Gang Huang
• Keywords: App store

The mobile application (app) has become the main entrance to access Internet on handheld devices. Unlike Web where each webpage a global URL reach directly, specific "content page" of an app can be opened only by exploring with several operations from landing page. interoperability between apps is quite fixed and thus limits value-added "linked data" apps. Recently, deep link been proposed enable targeting opening page externally accessible uniform resource identifier (URI). However, implementing for requires lot manual efforts developers, which very error-prone time-consuming. In this paper, we propose DroidLink automatically generating links existing Android We design model suitable automatic generation. Then explore transition pages build navigation graph based static dynamic analysis Next, realize updating mechanism that keeps revisiting target discover new pages, generates every single app. Finally, repackage supports, but no additional deployment requirements. generate some popular demonstrate feasibility DroidLink.