MobileViews: A Large-Scale Mobile GUI Dataset
MobileViews is a large-scale dataset designed to support research in mobile user interface (UI) analysis and mobile agents. It contains over 600,000 mobile UI screenshot-view hierarchy (VH) pairs collected from approximately 20,000 apps on the Google Play Store.
Dataset Overview
The dataset consists of multiple .tar.gz files containing screenshot-VH pairs and corresponding CSV index files that map each screenshot to its VH:
MobileViews_0-291197.tar.gzandMobileViews_index_0-291197.csv: The first set of screenshot-VH pairs, containing IDs from 0 to 291197.MobileViews_300000-522301.tar.gzandMobileViews_index_300000-522301.csv: The second set of screenshot-VH pairs, containing IDs from 300000 to 522301.AppMetadata.csv: App metadata for 15,000 apps from the Google Play Store, retrieved in June 2024.
Index CSV Columns
Each index CSV file contains the following columns, mapping each screenshot to its corresponding view hierarchy:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
Image File |
Filename of the screenshot (e.g., 0.jpg) |
JSON File |
Filename of the view hierarchy (e.g., 0.json) |
Example:
Image File,JSON File
300000.jpg,300000.json
300001.jpg,300001.json
300002.jpg,300002.json
Each .tar.gz file contains both the screenshots (JPG) and view hierarchy files (JSON).
AppMetadata.csv Columns
The AppMetadata.csv file contains detailed information about each app. The columns are as follows:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
title |
App title |
installs |
Number of installs |
minInstalls |
Minimum number of installs |
realInstalls |
Real number of installs |
score |
App score (rating) |
ratings |
Number of ratings |
reviews |
Number of reviews |
histogram |
Rating distribution |
price |
App price |
free |
Indicates if the app is free (True/False) |
offersIAP |
Offers in-app purchases (True/False) |
inAppProductPrice |
In-app product price |
developer |
Developer name |
developerId |
Developer ID |
genre |
App genre |
genreId |
Genre ID |
categories |
App categories |
contentRating |
Content rating (e.g., Everyone, Teen) |
adSupported |
Indicates if the app is ad-supported (True/False) |
containsAds |
Indicates if the app contains ads (True/False) |
released |
App release date |
lastUpdatedOn |
Date of the latest update |
appId |
Unique app identifier |
How to Use
- Download the dataset files (
.tar.gzand.csv). - Extract the
.tar.gzfiles to access the screenshot-VH pairs:# Extract the first set of data tar -xzvf MobileViews_0-291197.tar.gz # Extract the second set of data tar -xzvf MobileViews_300000-522301.tar.gz - Use the corresponding index CSV file to match each pair based on their IDs.
Citation
@misc{gao2024mobileviewslargescalemobilegui,
title={MobileViews: A Large-Scale Mobile GUI Dataset},
author={Longxi Gao and Li Zhang and Shihe Wang and Shangguang Wang and Yuanchun Li and Mengwei Xu},
year={2024},
eprint={2409.14337},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.HC},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14337},
}