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Traditional mobile application sequence recommendation approaches are predominantly dedicated to the pursuit of sophisticated sequence encoders to achieve more precise representations. However, existing sequence recommendation methods primarily consider the sequential order of historical App interactions, overlooking the time intervals between applications. This oversight hinders the model's capability to fully unearth the temporal correlations in user behavior, consequently limiting the accuracy and personalization of mobile application recommendations. Moreover, the interactions between users and mobile applications are typically sparse, which weakens the model's generalization capabilities. To address these issues, we propose a novel method for mobile application sequence recommendation, incorporating time interval\u2010aware attention and contrastive learning (called Ti\u2010CoRe). 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