Platform Independent, Higher-Order, Statically Checked Mobile Applications

2010

Abstract There is increasing interest in establishing a presence in the mobile application market, with platforms including Apple iPhone, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile. Because of the differences in platform languages, frameworks, and device hardware, development of an application for more than one platform can be a difficult task. In this paper we address this problem by the creation of a mobile Domain Specific Language (DSL).

Mobile applications are becoming increasingly more present in our daily life, allowing people to perform several tasks through the use of smartphones or tablets. Despite fostering the innovation, the rapid growth of the mobile market resulted in some fragmentation of the mobile platforms. The existence of different mobile operating systems with different programming languages and tools can be a problem when someone wants to release an application in multiple platforms. Rewriting the application for each platform is usually impracticable either in terms of budget or time, requiring a great effort. Therefore, a solution that could generate cross-platform applications without compromising the quality, would decrease the time to market and increase the number of potential users. This paper presents the XIS-Mobile language, defined as a UML profile in the context of the Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, and discusses its main challenges and benefits in the context of the cross-platform mobile application development.

The great evolution of the mobile market during the last years caused some fragmentation of the mobile platforms namely through the existence of different programming languages and software development tools for each platform. This fact can be an obstacle and increases the development complexity and costs when we want to develop mobile applications for multiple platforms. The XIS-Mobile domain specific language (defined as a UML profile) and its MDD-based framework address this problem by proposing platform-independent models to describe mobile applications and from them automatically generate the application’s source code. Many issues arose during an iterative process of evaluation which originated changes and the evolution of XIS-Mobile. This paper presents the results of the evaluation of XIS-Mobile (both the language and the companion framework) obtained through the implementation of a case study and by conducting a user session, and discusses its benefits and challenges.

The enormous potential of mobile web as an information appliance presents all organizations an urgent need and a compelling reason to not only create mobile specific versions of certain parts of their current systems, but also develop new mobile web applications to derive maximum benefit from this medium. However, as mobile web applications are generally being built using the same web engineering methodologies and tools which are used for building desktop web applications, organizations around the world require significant resources, making it difficult for many to quickly build these applications. In this paper, we describe our aim to mitigate this problem by using a Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) based approach. We explain MobiDSL - a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for modeling Mobile Web Applications and show how it can enable system designers and analysts to easily define an application's specification at a very high level of abstraction without any web programming. We also ...

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