Generic Library Mapping Approach for Trans-Compilation

Automated library mapping approach based on cross‐platform for mobile development programming languages

“…The results clearly indicate that the integration of the automated library mapping, which is the outcome of our approach, significantly improves the performance of both the Trans-compiler-based Mobile Application Code Converter 9 and the Generic Library Mapping Approach for Trans-Compilation. 10 The integration leads to an increase in the accuracy of the trans-compiler tool and the library mapping, from 66.57% and 85% respectively, to 94.10% for the five applications tested. This result in Figure 7 is expected, for both the result in References 9 and 10, which is the manual mapping approach, because both of them require preparing the dataset for the tool, but the whole process is done manually through a graphical user interface.…”

“…As a result, they manage to achieve better results than other trans-compilation approaches mentioned in One previous work that is worth mentioning is the manual generic mapping approach for trans-compilation. 10 This approach maps libraries in the Swift language to libraries in the Java language through a two-phase process. The first phase, called the library selection phase, involves selecting libraries for both source and destination languages and retrieving all functions within the class using the reflection of classes.…”

“…One of the most notable related works is the manual Generic mapping approach for trans‐compilation, 10 which maps a library in Swift language to a library in Java language manually. This approach is divided into two phases: the library selection phase and the library mapping phase.…”

“…The solution that is still under research is the trans‐compiler‐based mobile solution, whereby experiments carried out by References 6–14 usually involve converting an application written from one native language to another native language using the trans‐compilation approach. In References 11 and 12, the authors develop a tool called the Trans‐compiler Android to iOS converter (TCAIOSC) that converts applications written in Android to iOS.…”

“…Furthermore, in 2021, Ahmed et al 10 proposed a manual generic library solution that maps library functions from the source language to the destination language. The main limitation of this approach is that it relies on the manual gathering of functions and lacks conversion of commonly used libraries, which can lower the accuracy and efficiency of the solution.…”