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Context: Recently, many studies have been proposed to address the threat posed by Android malware. However, the continuous evolution of malware poses challenges to the task of representing application features in current detection methods. ...

• The study detects Android malware by fusing information in source and binary code.
• Large pre-trained model is used with task-specific knowledge for feature analysis.
• A fine-grained feature fusion strategy is designed for describing ...

Accessibility issues (e.g., small size and narrow interval) in mobile applications (apps) lead to obstacles for billions of low vision users in interacting with Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Although GUI accessibility scanning tools ...

Logic synthesis is a crucial step in integrated circuit design, and power optimization is an indispensable part of this process. However, power optimization for large-scale Mixed Polarity Reed-Muller (MPRM) logic circuits is an NP-hard problem. In this ...

Links between issues and pull requests (PRs) assist GitHub developers in tackling technical challenges, gaining development inspiration, and improving repository maintenance. In realistic repositories, these links are still insufficiently established. ...

There are many unofficial but widely accepted design conventions on the function layout of the user interface (UI) of apps, which include the position of functions and position relationship between functions. If an app fails to follow these ...

• The first study to detect UI problems from perspective of function layout.
• Gain the function layout information of UIs by analyzing the front-end code.
• Using semantic wireframes as the descriptions of the function layout of UIs.

The Internet’s rapid development has made web page access an integral part of people’s lives, catering to entertainment, socializing, and information retrieval. However, people with visual impairments face challenges in comprehending information ...

• This is the first study on automatically filling the alternative texts in SVG buttons.
• We identify 18 types of SVG buttons and create 25 feature templates.
• Our proposed tool, SAM, is a lightweight solution, reducing resource.
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With the increasing interconnection of smart devices, users often desire to adopt the same app on quite different devices for identical tasks, such as watching the same movies on both their smartphones and TVs. However, the significant differences in ...

UI animation is a widely adopted design element in the UI of Android apps. There are many animation APIs available for a variety of purposes, and developers can utilize them to realize the UI animations to avoid reinventing the wheel and thus improve the ...

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) plays a critical role in the interaction between users and mobile applications (apps), aiming at facilitating the operation process. However, due to the variety of functions and non-standardized design, GUIs might have ...

UI animations, such as card movement and menu slide in/out, provide appealing user experience and enhance the usability of mobile applications. In the process of UI animation implementation, it is difficult for developers to identify suitable APIs for the ...

As a popular social code hosting platform, GitHub encourages developers to discuss and leave opinions on issues. However, the linear format of GitHub issue discussions makes popular discussions difficult for developers to organize and extract ...

API (Application Programming Interface) is an important object in software development, and describing them properly is the basis for solving related problems, such as API recommendation. Recently, multimodal data fusing approaches ...

Context: API is important in daily programming activities during app development, but finding appropriate APIs is time-consuming for developers. To simplify this process, many researchers pay attention to overcoming the task-API knowledge gap ...

• We model API recommendation task as a multi-objective optimization problem.
• We mine the structural and semantic information of APIs.
• The evolutionary algorithm is adopted to find proper APIs for recommendation.
• Our approach is ...

GUI is an essential factor influencing users’ perception of an app. As the visual bridge between the user and the application, the quality of a GUI should be measured by the users’ subjective feelings. Therefore, to improve the UI, ...

To attract and retain users, deciding what features should be added in the next release of apps becomes very crucial. Different from traditional software, there are rich data resources in app markets to perform market-wide analysis. Considering ...

• Give the method to comprehensively mine the features in UI pages.
• Provide the method to identify similar products for apps.
• Propose a novel method to capture key features missed by apps.

GitHub has attracted much popularity among a large number of software developers around the world and introduced the social function follow to strengthen the relationship among developers. Like other social networks, GitHub users usually ...

There are a wide variety of intelligence accelerators with promising performance and energy efficiency, deployed in a broad range of applications such as computer vision and speech recognition. However, programming productivity hinders the ...

Filter pruning, a representative model compression technique, has been widely used to compress and accelerate sophisticated deep neural networks on resource-constrained platforms. Nevertheless, most studies focus on reducing the cost ...

The arbitrary usage of pull requests in GitHub may bring many issues such as incomplete, verbose, and duplicated descriptions, which hinder the development and maintenance of the project. Thus, GitHub proposed the ...

Facing the increasingly fierce competition, app developers have to update features of their products continually. In this process, developers need to not only consider users’ demands but also pay attention to what other similar apps do ...