A Model-Driven Cross-Platform App Development Process for Heterogeneous Device Classes

Rieger Christoph, Kuchen Herbert


Abstract
App development has gained importance since the advent of smartphones to enable the ubiquitous access to information. Until now, multi- or cross-platform approaches are usually limited to different platforms for smartphones and tablets. With the recent trend towards app-enabled mobile devices, a plethora of heterogeneous devices such as smartwatches and smart TVs continues to emerge. For app developers, the situation resembles the early days of smartphones but worsened by the widely differing hardware, platform capabilities, and usage patterns. In order to tackle the identified challenges of app development beyond the boundaries of individual device classes, a systematic process built on the model-driven paradigm is presented. In addition, we demonstrate its applicability using the MAML framework to create interoperable business apps for both smartphones and smartwatches from a common, platform-independent model.



Publication type
Research article in proceedings (conference)

Peer reviewed
Yes

Publication status
Published

Year
2019

Conference
52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Venue
Maui, Hawaii, USA

Start page
7431

End page
7440

Language
English

ISBN
978-0-9981331-2-6

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