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Conference Paper: Third-Party SDKs and Mobile App Performance
| Title | Third-Party SDKs and Mobile App Performance |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 11-Jul-2023 |
| Abstract | To create attractive mobile apps in the competitive mobile market, developers are increasingly leveraging third-party software development kits (SDKs) in app development. However, little is known about how using third-party toolkits affects app performance. Drawing on the platform literature and the boundary object theory, we conceptualize third-party SDK utilization as a boundary-spanning activity. Based on this, we theorize its impact on app performance, considering the mobile platform and app developers as contextual factors. We examine the causal influence of third-party SDKs on app performance by conducting difference-in-difference-style analyses on a longitudinal dataset of mobile apps released on the Apple App Store and Google Play. We find empirical evidence supporting our theoretical conjectures that utilizing more third-party SDKs increases active users. More interestingly, platform updates and developer platform-specific experience attenuate this positive impact. This study contributes to the platform-based innovation and governance literature and provides managerial implications in mobile domains. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337952 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Xia, Yu | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Chen, Hailiang | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Fang, Yulin | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:25:09Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:25:09Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-07-11 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/337952 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>To create attractive mobile apps in the competitive mobile market, developers are increasingly leveraging third-party software development kits (SDKs) in app development. However, little is known about how using third-party toolkits affects app performance. Drawing on the platform literature and the boundary object theory, we conceptualize third-party SDK utilization as a boundary-spanning activity. Based on this, we theorize its impact on app performance, considering the mobile platform and app developers as contextual factors. We examine the causal influence of third-party SDKs on app performance by conducting difference-in-difference-style analyses on a longitudinal dataset of mobile apps released on the Apple App Store and Google Play. We find empirical evidence supporting our theoretical conjectures that utilizing more third-party SDKs increases active users. More interestingly, platform updates and developer platform-specific experience attenuate this positive impact. This study contributes to the platform-based innovation and governance literature and provides managerial implications in mobile domains.<br></p> | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - PACIS 2023 (09/07/2023-12/07/2023, Nanchang) | - |
| dc.title | Third-Party SDKs and Mobile App Performance | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |