Open AccessFramework for the declarative implementation of native mobile applications
Author(s) -
Miravet Patricia,
Marin Ignacio,
Ortin Francisco,
Rodriguez Javier
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
iet software
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.305
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1751-8814
pISSN - 1751-8806
DOI - 10.1049/iet-sen.2012.0194
Subject(s) - computer science , workflow , mobile device , task (project management) , human–computer interaction , distributed computing , world wide web , database , management , economics
The development of connected mobile applications for a broad audience is a complex task because of the existing device diversity. In order to soothe this situation, device‐independent approaches are aimed at implementing platform‐independent applications, hiding the differences among the diverse families and models of mobile devices. Most of the existing approaches are based on the imperative definition of applications, which are either compiled to a native application, or executed in a Web browser. The client and server sides of applications are implemented separately, using different mechanisms for data synchronisation. In this study, the authors propose device‐independent mobile application generation (DIMAG), a framework for defining native device‐independent client–server applications based on the declarative specification of application workflow, state and data synchronisation, user interface and data queries. The authors have designed DIMAG considering the dynamic addition of new types of devices, and facilitating the generation of applications for new target platforms. DIMAG has been implemented taking advantage of existing standards.