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The fast-paced evolution of Android APIs has posed a challenging task for Android app developers. To leverage Android's frequently released APIs, developers must often spend considerable effort on API migrations. Prior research and Android official documentation typically provide enough information to guide developers in identifying the API calls that must be migrated and the corresponding API calls in an updated version of Android (what to migrate). However, API migration remains a challenging task since developers lack the knowledge of how to migrate the API calls. There exist code examples, such as Google Samples, that illustrate the usage of APIs. We posit that by analyzing the changes of API usage in code examples, we can learn API migration patterns to assist developers with API Migrations. In this paper, we propose an approach that learns API migration patterns from code examples, applies these patterns to the source code of Android apps for API migration, and presents the results to users as potential migration solutions. To evaluate our approach, we migrate API calls in open source Android apps by learning API migration patterns from code examples. We find that our approac

Author

Lamothe, Maxime; Shang, Weiyi; Chen, Tse-Hsun

Published

2018

Language

EN