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Cross-Platform Development - Suitability of Current Mobile Application Frameworks

Authors:
Jan Christoph
Daniel Rösch
Thomas Schuster

Keywords: app development; Web engineering; component-based software architectures

Abstract:
Mobile device adoption has increased dramatically within the last decade. In addition to smartphones, wearables and various sensors are among the most utilized devices. At the same time, the multiplicity of devices increases, the number of platforms to consider when developing applications increases as well. It is therefore desirable to be able to generically develop applications and deploy them to all relevant target platforms. A typical approach is given by frameworks, which generate platform specific code. In this article, we examine the suitability of these frameworks. Central questions are access to native system functions, sensors of devices and support for upcoming platform developments. To evaluate the frameworks, we defined a reference application and implemented tests for different mobile devices and platforms. A final framework comparison reveals opportunities and limitations. This, in turn, serves as a foundation for future work on improvements of promising approaches.

Pages: 13 to 20

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: June 24, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-645-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2018 to June 28, 2018