With the popularity of smartphones and tablets, users have become accustomed
to using different devices for different tasks, such as using their phones to
play games and tablets to watch movies. To conquer the market, one app is often
available on both smartphones and tablets. However, although one app has
similar graphic user interfaces (GUIs) and functionalities on phone and tablet,
current app developers typically start from scratch when developing a
tablet-compatible version of their app, which drives up development costs and
wastes existing design resources. Researchers are attempting to employ deep
learning in automated GUIs development to enhance developers' productivity.
Deep learning models rely heavily on high-quality datasets. There are currently
several publicly accessible GUI page datasets for phones, but none for pairwise
GUIs between phones and tablets. This poses a significant barrier to the
employment of deep learning in automated GUI development. In this paper, we
collect and make public the Papt dataset, which is a pairwise dataset for GUI
conversion and retrieval between Android phones and tablets. The dataset
contains 10,035 phone-tablet GUI page pairs from 5,593 phone-tablet app pairs.
We illustrate the approaches of collecting pairwise data and statistical
analysis of this dataset. We also illustrate the advantages of our dataset
compared to other current datasets. Through preliminary experiments on this
dataset, we analyse the present challenges of utilising deep learning in
automated GUI development and find that our dataset can assist the application
of some deep learning models to tasks involving automatic GUI development.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure