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Developing mobile apps using cross-platform frameworks: a case study

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HCI'13: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-Computer Interaction: human-centred design approaches, methods, tools, and environments - Volume Part I

Pages 371 - 380

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39232-0_41

Published: 21 July 2013 Publication History

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In last few years, a huge variety of frameworks for the mobile cross-platform development have been released to deliver quick and overall better solutions. Most of them are based on different approaches and technologies; therefore, relying on only one for using in all cases is not recommendable. The diversity in smart-devices (i.e. smartphones and tablets) and in their hardware features; such as screen-resolution, processing power, etc.; as well as the availability of different mobile operating systems makes the process of mobile application development much complicated. In this work, we analyze few of these cross-platform development frameworks through developing three mobile apps on each of them as well as on the native Android and iOS environments. Moreover, we also performed a user evaluation study on these developed mobile apps to judge how users perceive the same mobile app developed in different frameworks and environments, from the native to the cross-platform environment. Results indicate that these frameworks are good alternative to the native platform implementations but a careful investigation is required before deciding to check whether the target framework supports the needed features in a stable way.

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Rieger CMajchrzak T(2019)Towards the definitive evaluation framework for cross-platform app development approachesJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2019.04.001153:C(175-199)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2019.04.001
Ahti VHyrynsalmi SNevalainen O(2016)An Evaluation Framework for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development ToolsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies 201610.1145/2983468.2983484(41-48)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2983468.2983484

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HCI'13: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-Computer Interaction: human-centred design approaches, methods, tools, and environments - Volume Part I

July 2013

639 pages

ISBN:9783642392313

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Masaaki Kurosu
The Open University of Japan, 2-11 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi, Japan

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Rieger CMajchrzak T(2019)Towards the definitive evaluation framework for cross-platform app development approachesJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2019.04.001153:C(175-199)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2019.04.001
Ahti VHyrynsalmi SNevalainen O(2016)An Evaluation Framework for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development ToolsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies 201610.1145/2983468.2983484(41-48)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2016
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