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A Review of User Interface Description Languages for Mobile Applications

Authors:
Nikola Mitrovic
Carlos Bobed
Eduardo Mena

Keywords: Adaptive GUI; Mobile Computing.

Abstract:
Adapting a graphical user interface (GUI) for various user devices is still one of the most interesting topics in today’s mobile computation. The benefits of separating the specification of the GUI from its implementation are broadly accepted. However, it is not clear which are the benefits and disadvantages of current GUI specification languages in order to define and develop multiplatform mobile applications which can adapt dynamically to different devices with different features. In this paper, we review User Interface Description Languages (UIDLs) that can be used currently to specify GUIs in mainstream mobile platforms. We analyze their features and usefulness for dynamic adaptation of GUIs to heterogeneous mobile devices. All reviewed UIDLs are suitable for developing mobile applications; however, there are no UIDLs that will truly be able to operate across multiple platforms.

Pages: 96 to 101

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: October 9, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-505-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 9, 2016 to October 13, 2016