Mitigating Mobile Diversity with RESTful Services

2013 ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Tristan Wehrmaker ◽  
Kurt Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Simple Extension ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Distributed Object ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Restful Services ◽  
A Company

Mobile devices create new opportunities for companies. However, innovative applications can cause challenges for software and system architecture. In this chapter, the authors describe a trap to fall into when starting a promising mobile application in a shortsighted way. When the application gets popular and successful, diversity of mobile platforms increases. Many users have an almost emotional relationship to their own smartphone or platform and may not be willing to change it. In order to make the mobile application available to more users, a company may be tempted to add a “simple” extension to accommodate other platforms. Thus, the diversity in devices leads to diversity in distributed object technologies and with it to problems in complexity and compatibility. The authors describe an approach that counters this problem with RESTful services. They use the ConTexter system for illustrating experiences with the problem and for evaluating a proposed solution. The chapter shows the key issues the authors had to solve while migrating ConTexter to a RESTful platform.

A Comprehensive Comparison of Hybrid Mobile Application Development Frameworks

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Blaž Denko ◽  
Špela Pečnik ◽  
Iztok Fister Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Mobile Application Development ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison ◽  
Mobile Development ◽  
Smart Mobile

The number of users of smart mobile devices is growing every day. Because of the popularity of using mobile devices, it is important for business stakeholders to develop mobile applications targeting all mobile platforms in order to ensure that the number of users is as large as possible. One possible solution is the creation of hybrid mobile applications. These are applications that combine the properties of web and native mobile applications, and their main advantage is compatibility with multiple mobile operating systems. This paper presents the results of very comprehensive experiments that involved the use of various hybrid mobile development frameworks that were tested under different scenarios. Experiments revealed that the performance of hybrid applications in different scenarios varies considerably, although the results of these applications were comparable to those that were achieved in the experiment with the native application.

Implementation of an Inventory Control System for a Computer Center Using QR Codes on Android Mobile Devices

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Gustavo Poot Tah ◽  
Erika Llanes Castro ◽  
José Luis López Martínez ◽  
Victor Chi Pech
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Inventory Control ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Qr Codes ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Computer Center

This paper presents the design and development of a mobile application that uses QR codes for the inventory control of a computer center. This application was developed to support the administration of the computer center of the Multidisciplinary Unit Tizimin, with the aim to reduce costs and time of searching for articles when making an inventory, by leveraging the capabilities of smartphones and tablets. The implementation of the system was carried out using free software.

Designing a Mobile Chat Application Based on Android Platform

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Sorinel Căpuşneanu ◽  
Melinda Timea Fülöp ◽  
Dan Ioan Topor ◽  
Nicoleta Magdalena Iacob ◽  
Alina Georgiana Solomon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Topical Issue ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
Android Platform ◽  
Pleasant Experience

Securing confidential information on mobile platforms has been, is, and will be a topical issue for specialists. In order to eliminate these vulnerabilities, specialized companies have made some patches, but these do not constitute a real guarantee that the same or any other applications will not be attacked and exploited without the users' will. Mitigating these attacks on smartphones can be achieved by securing mobile phones from both users and mobile providers. This article proposes the development of a chat application on the Android platform as a solution to ensure the security of digital data that is transferred through the available communication platforms. When designing this mobile application, the sudden increase in the number of users was taken into account so that the application is stable and creates a pleasant experience for them.

scholarly journals Mobile accident report and road assistance application

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-128
Author(s):  
Nadide Duygu Solak ◽  
Murat Topaloglu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Loss Assessment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Moment

The number of mobile applications has been increasing rapidly in every field of life with the increasing use of smart devices. Smartphones and tablets make our lives easier with their properties and application they include. Minor or major accidents in traffic are always present in the daily life resulting in financial damage and loss of lives. There have been a number of studies done to speed up the processes to be done from the moment an accident happens. This study aims to enable people to perform all of the post-accident processes quickly and accurately with the use of mobile devices. In this way, papers and documents like photographs will be sent to the competent authorities without wasting time and effort. In addition, access to the road assistance needed will be quite easy. Keywords: Traffic accident, loss assessment and proceedings, mobile application.

Mobile Apps Threats

2019 ◽  
pp. 1021-1030
Author(s):  
Donovan Peter Chan Wai Loon ◽  
Sameer Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Poor Risk ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Mobile Malware ◽  
Risk Communications

From adults to children, beginners to experts, and in numerous countries around the world, there is a diverse user base for mobile devices. However, the extensive use of mobile devices has also led to the proliferation and attacks of various mobile malware. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of mobile malware. Subsequently, the chapter highlights the current trends and challenges posed by malicious mobile applications. The authors look into Android and iOS mobile platforms and discuss current research to detect malicious applications. Remedies for poor risk communications on Android-based devices are also suggested.

Security for Hybrid Mobile Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 246-288
Author(s):  
Marcus Tanque
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Development Platform ◽  
Mobile Development ◽  
System Interfaces ◽  
Hybrid Development

In recent decades, vendors developed technology infrastructure solutions to integrate with enterprises and consumers' mobile devices. Hybrid development platforms are solution architecture designed to enhance developers' capabilities and provide organizations as well as customers the level of services to support mobile devices capabilities. Hybrid development platform solutions are easy to deploy at various enterprises. These capabilities can be distributed to/or integrated with mobile devices as agile applications and system interfaces. Hybrid mobile devices are designed to further provide users with enhanced technology solutions: cloud computing, big data, the Internet, physical and/or virtual network systems. The development of hybrid mobile platforms provides developers with advanced technology capabilities, necessary for supporting mobile devices once deployed to the marketplace. Technical and security features affecting the development and security of mobile devices are also discussed in this chapter.

A User Context-Aware Advertising Framework for the Mobile Web

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Nan Jing ◽  
Yong Yao ◽  
Yanbo Ru
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
Advertising Content

Context-aware advertising is one of the most critical components in the Internet ecosystem today because most WWW publisher’s revenue highly depends on the relevance of the displayed advertisement to the context of the user interaction. Existing research works in context-aware advertising mainly focus on analyzing either the content of the web page (in which it is also called contextual advertising), or the keywords of the user search. However, we have identified the limitations of these works when being extended into mobile web, which has become a major platform for users to access Internet with thanks to the new lightweight web technologies and the development of mobile devices. These mobile devices are equipped with networking capabilities and sensors that provide versatile contexts including physical environment, user internal and social community. These contexts, which are far beyond just page content and search keywords, should be well organized and utilized for online advertising to gain better user experience and reaction. In this chapter, we point out the aforementioned limitations of the existing works in context-aware advertising when being applied for mobile platforms. We also discuss the characteristics of the contexts that are available on mobile devices and clearly describe the challenges of utilizing these contexts to optimize the advertisement on mobile platforms. We then present a context-aware advertising framework that collects and integrates the user contexts to select, generate, and present advertising content. The purpose of this framework is to provide the mobile users with targeted and purposeful advertisement. Finally, we discuss the implementation aspects and one specific application of this framework and outline our future plans.

Location Based E-commerce System

2011 ◽  
pp. 881-892
Author(s):  
Nuno André Osório Liberato ◽  
João Eduardo Quintela Alves de Sous Varajão ◽  
Emanuel Soares Peres Correia ◽  
Maximino Esteves Correia Bessa
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Desktop Computers ◽  
Product Search ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Potential Customers

Location-based mobile services (LBMS) are at present an ever growing trend, as found in the latest and most popular mobile applications launched. They are, indeed, supported by the hasty evolution of mobile devices capabilities, namely smart phones, which are becoming truer mobile pocket-computers; by users demand, always searching for new ways to benefit from technology, besides getting more contextualized and user-centred services; and, lastly, by market drive, which sees mobile devices as a dedicated way to reach customers, providing profile-based publicity, products, discounts and events. With e-commerce, products and services started arriving to potential customers through desktop computers, where they can be bought and fast delivered to a given address. However, expressions such as “being mobile”, “always connected”, “anytime anywhere” that already characterize life in the present will certainly continue to do so in the near future. Meanwhile, mobile devices centred commerce services seem to be the next step. Therefore, this paper presents a system architecture designed for location-based e-commerce systems. These systems, where location plays the most important role, enable a remote products/services search, based in user parameters: after a product search, shops with that products are returned in the search results and are displayed in a map, around the user present location; and services like obtaining more information, reserving and purchasing are made available as well. This concept represents a mix between traditional client-oriented commerce and faceless mass-oriented e-commerce, enabling a proximity-based user-contextualized system, being well capable of conveying significant advantages and facilities to both service-providers/retailers and users.

Globalization of Consumer E-Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 1678-1684
Author(s):  
Daniel Brandon Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Home Country ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Business To Consumer ◽  
B2c Electronic Commerce ◽  
A Company ◽  
Home Territory

This article reviews globalization aspects of “business to consumer” (B2C) electronic commerce. According to Computerworld, “Globalization is the marketing and selling of a product outside a company’s home country. To successfully do that on the Internet, a company needs to localize – make its Web site linguistically, culturally, and in all other ways accessible to customers outside its home territory” (Brandon, 2001). This overview describes the key issues in the globalization of electronic commerce; for more detail, see the full book chapter (Brandon, 2002).

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