Hybrid Mobile Apps in the Google Play Store: An Exploratory Investigation

Malavolta, Ivano; Ruberto, Stefano; Soru, Tommaso; Terragni, Valerio

doi:10.1109/mobilesoft.2015.15

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“…Where previous research often cite cross-platform app frameworks such as PhoneGap, Titanium Appcelerator, DragonRad and Rhodes [89], [90], [23], [12], a plethora of newer and more technically updated frameworks have been released lately. Although very recent papers cover frameworks such as React Native, Ionic and Fuse [3], but other solutions including NativeScript [91], Quasar [92] and Apache Weex [93] are yet to be scrutinized at the same level as e.g.…”

Section: Emergent Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Progressive Web Apps: the Definite Approach to Cross-Platform Development?

Majchrzak¹,

Biørn-Hansen²,

Grønli³

2018

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Although development practices for apps have matured, cross-platform development remains a prominent topic. Typically, apps should always support both Android and iOS devices. They ought to run smoothly on various hardware, and be compatible with a host of platform versions. Additionally, device categories beyond smartphone and tablets have emerged, which makes multi-platform support even trickier. Truly developing an app once and serving the multitude of possible targets remains an issue despite having crossplatform frameworks that are acknowledged by practice and research. The technology unifier remains to be found, but Progressive Web Apps (PWA) might be a step towards it. In this paper, we analyse the foundations of PWAs in cross-platform development and scrutinize the status quo of current possibilities. Based on our observations, we investigate unified development, and discuss open questions. We seek to stimulate interest and narrow the immense gap that has arisen since industry started to embrace PWAs.

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Section: Emergent Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Progressive Web Apps: the Definite Approach to Cross-Platform Development?

Majchrzak¹,

Biørn-Hansen²,

Grønli³

2018

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Differently from hybrid mobile apps [7], [6], it is hosted on a remote servers, served via the HTTP standard protocol, and accessed by end users via a unique URL [5]. In other words, mobile web apps are mobile-optimized websites accessed via the browser apps installed on end users' mobile devices (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Opera).…”

Section: A Progressive Web Appsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To allow easy replication and verification of our experiment, a complete replication package 6 is publicly available to interested researchers. Our replication package includes: a 38-pages report presenting the details of the experiment, the source code of the measurement scripts, raw data for each phase of the experiment, and the R scripts for exploring, summarizing, and analyzing measurement data.…”

Section: F Replicability Of the Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Impact of Service Workers on the Energy Efficiency of Progressive Web Apps

Malavolta

Procaccianti

Noorland

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)

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Abstract-Context. Mobile web apps represent a large share of the Internet today. However, they still lag behind native apps in terms of user experience. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a new technology introduced by Google that aims at bridging this gap, with a set of APIs known as service workers at its core. Goal. In this paper, we present an empirical study that evaluates the impact of service workers on the energy efficiency of PWAs, when operating in different network conditions on two different generations of mobile devices. Method. We designed an empirical experiment with two main factors: the use of service workers and the type of network available (2G or WiFi). We performed the experiment by running a total of 7 PWAs on two devices (an LG G2 and a Nexus 6P) that we evaluated as blocking factor. Our response variable is the energy consumption of the devices. Results. Our results show that service workers do not have a significant impact over the energy consumption of the two devices, regardless of the network conditions. Also, no interaction was detected between the two factors. However, some patterns in the data show different behaviors among PWAs. Conclusions. This paper represents a first empirical investigation on PWAs. Our results show that the PWA and service workers technology is promising in terms of energy efficiency.

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“…Hybrid mobile apps: Malavolta et al [12] have focused on analyzing hybrid mobile apps (e.g., those that uses PhoneGap) available on the app store Google Play and their meta-data (i.e., user ranking and reviews). One of their finding is that the average of end users ratings for both hybrid and native apps are similar (3.75 and 3.35 (out of 5), respectively).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Towards the Quality Improvement of Cross-Platform Mobile Applications

Martínez¹,

Lecomte²

2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)

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Abstract-During last ten years, the number of smartphones and mobile applications has been constantly growing. Android, iOS and Windows Mobile are three mobile platforms that cover almost all smartphones in the world in 2017. Developing a mobile app involves first to choose the platforms the app will run, and then to develop specific solutions (i.e., native apps) for each chosen platform using platform-related toolkits such as Android SDK. A cross-platform mobile application is an app that runs on two or more mobile platforms. Several frameworks have been proposed to simplify the development of cross-platform mobile applications and to reduce development and maintenance costs. They are called cross-platform mobile app development frameworks. However, to our knowledge, the life-cycle and the quality of crossplatforms mobile applications built using those frameworks have not been studied in depth. Our main goal is to first study the processes of development and maintenance of mobile applications built using cross-platform mobile app development frameworks, focusing particularly on the bug-fixing activity. Then, we aim at defining tools for automated repairing bugs from cross-platform mobile applications.

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Hybrid Mobile Apps in the Google Play Store: An Exploratory Investigation

Cited by 50 publications

References 7 publications

Progressive Web Apps: the Definite Approach to Cross-Platform Development?

Progressive Web Apps: the Definite Approach to Cross-Platform Development?

Assessing the Impact of Service Workers on the Energy Efficiency of Progressive Web Apps

Towards the Quality Improvement of Cross-Platform Mobile Applications

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