@inproceedings{3c8e56aa547341d19e97c2ebb2d1d086,
title = "Aladdin: Automating release of android deep links to in-app content",
abstract = "Unlike the Web where each web page has a global URL to reach, a specific 'content page' inside a mobile app cannot be opened unless the user explores the app with several operations from the landing page. Recently, deep links have been advocated by major companies to enable targeting and opening a specific page of an app externally with an accessible uniform resource identifier (URI). In this paper, we present an empirical study of deep links over 20,000 Android apps, and find that deep links do not get wide adoption among current Android apps, and non-trivial manual efforts are required for app developers to support deep links. To address such an issue, we propose the Aladdin approach and supporting tool to release deep links to access arbitrary locations of existing apps. We evaluate Aladdin with popular apps and demonstrate its effectiveness and performance.",
keywords = "Android apps, Deep link, Program analysis",
author = "Yun Ma and Xuanzhe Liu and Ziniu Hu and Dian Yang and Gang Huang and Yunxin Liu and Tao Xie",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.; 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017 ; Conference date: 20-05-2017 Through 28-05-2017",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.107",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "139--140",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017",
address = "United States",
}