Impact of mobile cross-platform development on CPU, memory and battery of mobile devices when using common mobile app features | Zendy

Thomas Dorfer | Zendy; Lukas Demetz | Zendy; Stefan Huber | Zendy

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Impact of mobile cross-platform development on CPU, memory and battery of mobile devices when using common mobile app features

Author(s) -

Thomas Dorfer,

Lukas Demetz,

Stefan Huber

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

procedia computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334

H-Index - 76

ISSN - 1877-0509

DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2020.07.029

Subject(s) - porting , computer science , android (operating system) , mobile apps , mobile device , embedded system , cross platform , mobile computing , mobile processor , mobile web , operating system , mobile technology , resource consumption , world wide web , software , ecology , biology

More and more apps are built with mobile cross-platform development (MCPD) approaches. MCPD approaches offer developers several advantages for porting a mobile app onto several mobile platforms. However, these approaches come at the cost of a higher resource usage on the mobile device. In this study the resource and energy efficiency of the widely-used MCPD approach React Native is compared to native Android. The study is based on a mobile app, which uses functionality commonly found in mobile apps. Within a controlled usage scenario the study shows that the investigated MCPD approach consumed between 6% to 8% more energy than the Android native counterpart.

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