Release practices for iOS and Android apps

We conduct a preliminary study on the practices of releasing apps for the two major mobile platforms: iOS and Android. We select the most popular applications on the official stores, and we retrieve all the releases of such apps to understand how often developers make releases on each platform. Our study aims to highlight possible differences on the release practices for the same application on iOS and Android. We observe that developers tend to publish new releases more often on the Android platform than on iOS, and most of the times the development on the two platforms is not aligned at all.

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