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A Case Study of Application Development for Mobile and Location-Based Services

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Daniel Granlund,

Karl Andersson,

Robert BrännströmAuthors Info & Claims

IIWAS '13: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 658 - 662

https://doi.org/10.1145/2539150.2539202

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

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In this paper we present a case study of a location-dependent service, aimed for tourists. Two applications are developed, one based on native technologies, the other on HTML5 and related frameworks. We provide implementation details and compare the different solutions in terms of location support, compliance with required features, and cross-platform functionality. Our experiments show that web-based approaches may lead to significant benefits over using native technologies; both versions of the application displayed comparable location support and compliance with required features, while the web version superseded its native counterpart in cross-platform functionality.

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Kurtz KNoguez MZanini FFerreira PBrisolara L(2017)Comparing Performance and Energy Consumption of Android Applications: Native Versus Web Approaches2017 VII Brazilian Symposium on Computing Systems Engineering (SBESC)10.1109/SBESC.2017.26(147-154)Online publication date: Nov-2017
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Johansson DAndersson K(2016)Mobile E-ServicesGeospatial Research10.4018/978-1-4666-9845-1.ch031(690-716)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9845-1.ch031
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