SMAR Tool for Systematic Mobile Application Reviews

A tool for academic researchers to conduct a keyword search of the Google Play & iOS App Stores and get back the metadata for all relevant apps.

This project is ongoing! You can view our beta site at smar-tool.org. Also, take a look at our User Guide for an in-depth overview of how to use our application.

Our backend code can be found here.

Team

This project was made with love at the Santa Clara University HCI Lab by a student-led team of researchers across various disciplines.

Faculty Advisor 💡

• Professor Kai Lukoff | Website

Project Lead 💬

• Ilona van der Linden | LinkedIn | Email

Developer Team 🖥️

• Varun Mangla | LinkedIn | Email
• Gaurav Punjabi | LinkedIn
• Jeshwin Prince | LinkedIn | Email

Technical Consulting Team 🗒️

• Soham Phadke | LinkedIn | Email

Literature Review Team 📖

• Katrina Ying | LinkedIn
• Maggie Lau | Email
• Crystal Chen | LinkedIn

Project Alumni 🤍

• Akaash Trivedi
• Vaishnavi Upadhye
• Rani Rajurkar
• Juilee Katpatal

Running SMAR Locally

We strongly advise accessing our tool via our website for the best user experience!

Experienced developers who wish to try the SMAR tool on their local machine: read on.

1. Clone down the sar-frontend and SAR-backend repositories to your local machine.

2. To use our stable, deployed branch: git checkout production in the frontend repository. You will need to open 2 backend terminals, 1 with git checkout gplay-backend and 1 with git checkout ios-backend. By default, the production frontend connects directly to the live SMAR backend. If you would like to run the backends locally, you will need to modify backend calls to go to your local machine rather than the live backend. A guide for this will be provided soon!

3. To start sar-backend : Run node index.js

4. To start sar-ios-backend: Run node index.js

5. To start sar-frontend : Run npm-start