A Web-Based Tool for Using Storyboard of Android Apps

The development team usually makes painstaking efforts to review and analyze many existing apps with similar purposes such as competitive analysis, design recommendation, code generation, and app testing. To assist different roles in doing these tasks, in our prior work, two advanced approaches (i.e., StoryDroid and StoryDistiller) have been proposed to automatically generate the storyboards for Android apps with rich features such as UI pages, UI components, layout code, and logic code. These approaches both aim at exploring and parsing as many app pages as possible but lack some consideration of the presentation and interpretability of the results for different users such as PMs, designers, and developers. To improve usability and scalability, this paper presents a web-based offline tool, named StoryDroid+, which provides an operation-friendly platform for using storyboards and helps different stakeholders (e.g., designers, package managers, developers) explore and understand apps from different perspectives through rich visual pages. The tool and datasets are available at: https://github.com/tjusenchen/StoryDroid and the demonstration video can be found at: https://youtu.be/prszxRdkdYU.