AndroZoo: A Retrospective with a Glimpse into the Future
Marco Alecci, Pedro Jesús Ruiz Jiménez, Kevin Allix, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein
Abstract
In 2016, we released AndroZoo, a continuously expanding dataset of Android applications that aggregates apps from various sources, including the official Google Play app market. As of today, Andro-Zoo contains approximately 24 million APK files, making it, to the best of our knowledge, the most extensive dataset of Android APKs accessible to the research community. Currently, an average of 500 000 APKs are downloaded every day, with our initial MSR paper counting more than 880 citations on Google Scholar.
Topics & Concepts
Computer scienceAdvanced Malware Detection TechniquesSoftware Testing and Debugging TechniquesSoftware Engineering Research