Evaluating maintainability of android applications

Android applications are considered the most popular and desirable applications due to their friendly interface, various categories and available options, and supporting most of the available hardware in the market. Complexity to understand, design, develop, implement, and test android applications have been raised. Maintainability is a very important quality attribute that we should consider it seriously. However, it is one of the most difficult and costly attributes that can be achieved. The software metrics are used to predict and estimate the software maintainability value. There are several metrics and formulas that are used to measure and estimate the maintainability value. These metrics and formulas are derived from the different usages of the maintainability. This paper focus on analyzing and measuring the maintainability of Android mobile applications using Object Oriented metrics and Android Metrics. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact all of these metrics on the maintainability of Android applications and choose the metrics that has the highest impact.