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Computer Science ›› 2022, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (12): 136-145.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.211100066

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Automating Release of Android APIs Based on Computational Reflection

WANG Yi1,2, CHEN Ying-ren1,2, CHEN Xing1,2, LIN Bin2,3, MA Yun4   

  1. 1 College of Mathematics and Computer Science,Fuzhou University,Fuzhou 350116,China
    2 Fujian Key Laboratory of Network Computing and Intelligent Information Processing,Fuzhou 350116,China
    3 College of Physics and Energy,Fujian Normal University,Fuzhou 350117,China
    4 School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China
  • Received:2021-11-05 Revised:2022-07-28 Published:2022-12-14
  • About author:WANG Yi,born in 1996,postgraduate.His main research interests include Android application service generation and Android application service adaptation.CHEN Xing,born in 1985,Ph.D,professor,Ph.D supervisor,is a member of China Computer Federation.His main research interests include system software,software self-adaptation and cloud computing.
  • Supported by:
    National Key R & D Program of China(2018YFB1004800),Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province for Distinguished Young Scholars(2020J06014) and Special Project on Science and Technology Development of Central Government Guiding Local Government(2019L3002).

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Abstract: With the development of mobile hardware and 5G communication technologies,smart applications are booming,which has penetrated into all the aspects of our life and work.There are many functions in applications,which can not only satisfy the user’s requirements,but also be further released as APIs for external invocations.For instance,the APIs provided by applications can be invoked by the intelligent voice assistant.However,these functions must be released as APIs during the development phase,otherwise they cannot be used for external invocations.To address this problem,this paper proposes an approach to automatic release of APIs of Android applications based on computational reflection.It first rebuilds runtime software architecture for the activities of Android applications based on the reflection mechanism,without modifying the source code of application.Then,based on test cases of the specified function,it analyzes its user-behavior workflow and corresponding procedure calls.Finally,the function can be invoked by simulating the user behaviors,and then is released as the corresponding API.We evaluate our approach with 300 popular apps on Android app store Wandoujia,and the results show that our approach is effective for 280 of them.For the specified functions,APIs can be implemented by our approach in about 15 minutes,and their runtime performance is desirable.

Key words: API generation, Android app, Computational reflection, Runtime software architecture, Workflow

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