  Mobile phones and tablets have become the most widely used computing devices,
with a large predominance of the Android platform. As a natural evolution, the
development of Android applications has surged and has become a major field of
study, with research efforts ranging from energy efficiency, to code smells,
performance, maintainability, security, etc. These kind of challenges ask for
dedicated solutions, tools, and datasets. This survey identifies and reviews 31
existing datasets of Android applications and classifies each of them according
to key features, such as the total number of apps it contains, whether the
commit history of the apps is available, whether it focusses on the source code
or on the executable binaries of the apps, the sources used for building the
dataset, etc. This study can benefit both the experienced and the novice
researcher interested on doing research on Android apps, which can use the
results of our study as a map for identifying the most suitable datasets for
their research objectives.
