Approaches to mobile application development: Comparative performance analysis

Delía, Lisandro Nahuel; Galdámez, Nicolás; Corbalán, Leonardo César; Pesado, Patricia Mabel; Thomas, Pablo Javier

doi:10.1109/sai.2017.8252165

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“…In this article, the results obtained in our previous work, presented in [1] [2] and [3], are expanded. Thorough tests of three of the most important non-functional requirements were carried out.…”

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“…In this context, and with the boom of mobile devices, software development is particularly conditioned by complying with certain requirements, some non-functional requirements in particular, that are critical in mobile apps. In this article, the results obtained in [1] [2] and [3] are expanded. This study is aimed at quantifying the impact of the development approach used on three of the most popular non-functional requirements in the area of apps for mobile devices: performance, energy consumption and use of storage space.…”

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A Study of Non-functional Requirements in Apps for Mobile Devices

Corbalán

Thomas

Delía

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Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Nowadays, no one questions the crucial role of Requirements Engineering in software systems development. Specifically, if apps are generated for execution on mobile devices, certain non-functional requirements become highly relevant. In this article, an experimental study on three non-functional requirements that are essential for the development of native and multi-platform mobile apps is detailed. These requirements are performance, energy consumption and storage space utilization.

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A Study of Non-functional Requirements in Apps for Mobile Devices

Corbalán

Thomas

Delía

et al. 2019

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…The studies presented in Table 1 evaluate a heterogeneous variety of platform characteristics. Whereas accelerometer and GPS sensor values, camera, and network access represent common evaluation criteria, many platform features have already been covered as well as deliberate restrictions to inapp computations -although also implemented using a set of cross-platform frameworks (Delía et al 2017). More exotic studies use secondary data taken from app store reviews in order to detect performance issues in actual apps (Mercado et al 2016).…”

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“…We have set out to substantiate the debate and our main motivation is the frequent encounter of claims regarding the efficiency of cross-platform technologies (e.g. Latif et al 2016a;Ahti et al 2016;Ribeiro and da Silva 2012;Delía et al 2017). It often is argued that a performance overhead is introduced by bridge components between framework and native device access (Latif et al 2017).…”

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An empirical investigation of performance overhead in cross-platform mobile development frameworks

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The heterogeneity of the leading mobile platforms in terms of user interfaces, user experience, programming language, and ecosystem have made cross-platform development frameworks popular. These aid the creation of mobile applicationsapps-that can be executed across the target platforms (typically Android and iOS) with minimal to no platform-specific code. Due to the cost-and time-saving possibilities introduced through adopting such a framework, researchers and practitioners alike have taken an interest in the underlying technologies. Examining the body of knowledge, we, nonetheless, frequently encounter discussions on the drawbacks of these frameworks, especially with regard to the performance of the apps they generate. Motivated by the ongoing discourse and a lack of empirical evidence, we scrutinised the essential piece of the cross-platform frameworks: the bridge enabling cross-platform code to communicate with the underlying operating system and device hardware APIs. The study we present in the article benchmarks and measures the performance of this bridge to reveal its associated overhead in Android apps. The development of the artifacts for this experiment was conducted using five cross-platform development frameworks to generate Android apps, in addition to a baseline native Android app implementation. Our results indicate that-for Android apps-the use of cross-platform frameworks for the development of mobile apps may lead to decreased performance compared to the native development approach. Nevertheless, certain cross-platform frameworks can perform equally well or even better than native on certain metrics which highlights the importance of well-defined technical requirements and specifications for deliberate selection of a cross-platform framework or overall development approach.

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“…We find that on the topic of performance research, studies span from the introduction of modern smartphone devices, and continue to regularly emerge in academic outlets [15,16,35]. Nevertheless, due to the rapid and constantly evolving nature of both software, hardware, and surrounding ecosystems, the continuation of empirical performance measurements is key to keeping up with-and staying relevant to industry and stakeholders.…”

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Software Development for Mobile Computing, the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices: Inspecting the Past to Understand the Future

Grønli

Biørn-Hansen

Majchrzak

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Currently a convergence in software development for mobile computing (including mobile devices and special technology such as wearables) and the Internet of Things (IoT) can be observed. Devices from the fields are becoming part of a joint ecosystem and share the same infrastructure. Moreover, development processes have changed and user requirements have become very heterogeneous. We have been studying this development for a while, also by offering the fitting HICSS minitrack. In this article, we look into the past of software development for mobile devices, in the context of IoT, and for wearables. We analyse joint characteristics and show differences. Then we invite to a discussion that leads to a research outlook. While neither for industry nor for academia the journey is over, the convergence of fields should offer many new possibilities, prevent problems we faced in the past, but also introduce novel challenges.

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Approaches to mobile application development: Comparative performance analysis

Cited by 15 publications

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A Study of Non-functional Requirements in Apps for Mobile Devices

A Study of Non-functional Requirements in Apps for Mobile Devices

An empirical investigation of performance overhead in cross-platform mobile development frameworks

Software Development for Mobile Computing, the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices: Inspecting the Past to Understand the Future

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