A Platform for Searching UI Component of Android Application

Android applications are becoming increasingly popular in digital home nowadays. Building high quality application is still one of biggest changes for Android developer community. The search service in current Android application market can´t meet the needs of developers when trying to find the user interface design in other applications. In this paper, we introduce a platform to query the runtime user interfaces of Android applications, which can help developers to reuse the design components to improve their applications. Based on the description information of 8,456 Android applications in Android market and the information of runtime 313,820 UI elements, we implement the platform providing search service for developers to find specified runtime user interfaces in our Android software repository. Our experiment for the quality of search result shows that 76.7% of top-10 search result contains the relevant UI components that are valuable for users.