The development of hybrid mobile applications with Apache Cordova

Bosnic, Stefan; Papp, István; Novak, Sebastian

doi:10.1109/telfor.2016.7818919

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“…Despite the discussions about the accessibility in hybrid and native applications, we acknowledge that the choice from developers need to take other factors into account, which were not in the scope of the present paper. As pointed out by Bosnic et al [2], the development of hybrid and native mobile applications have particular advantages and disadvantages. While hybrid development approaches enable the generation of applications for multiple platforms, native development can be more suitable for more complex development and have superior processing performance.…”

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“…This enables building apps with many resources, able to process images and videos at high resolutions. These apps can use notifications and run off-line [2].…”

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“…Hybrid development aims to combine the advantages of native development and web applications for creating mobile applications [2]. For this, different frameworks, tools and platforms have been deployed by developers, such as: Appcelerator Titanium 1 , Adobe PhoneGap 2 , Apache Cordova 3 , Ionic 4 , among others.…”

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An Analysis of Five Different Native and Web-Hybrid Platforms for Building Android Apps and their Accessibility for Screen Readers

Carvalho

Dias

Freire

2018

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The choice of an interface platform to develop mobile applications may have important implications to how accessible the resulting product can be for visually-disabled users. This paper aimed to analyze four platforms to develop native and web-hybrid mobile Android applications, and to verify the adequacy of their interface components to implement mobile applications, in order to identify the main accessibility problems that could be encountered by developers when using them, and the main strategies to overcome those issues. We built 5 prototypes of mobile applications with the aim of adhering as much as possible to accessibility recommendations. The applications were built using techniques of native applications developed with Android Studio with and without Web components and hybrid development using the frameworks Apache Cordova, Ionic and Appcelerator Titanium. We then performed an accessibility inspection of a sample of 30 Android interface components present in 5 prototypes of mobile applications, to verify their adequacy for working with screen readers. The results showed that the prototypes developed using web components were more compatible with accessibility criteria in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) and with the screen reader TalkBack. The most frequent accessibility problems in native components occurred in tables, headings and multimedia elements. We conclude by showing initial evidence that webbased components in hybrid applications developed using webhybrid and native with embedded web components currently have better support for accessibility than applications with only native components.

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“…This enables building apps with many resources, able to process images and videos at high resolutions. These apps can use notifications and run off-line [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Analysis of Five Different Native and Web-Hybrid Platforms for Building Android Apps and their Accessibility for Screen Readers

Carvalho

Dias

Freire

2018

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“…Apache Cordova tools [37] were used to develop a hybrid application. This approach enabled the generation of the application for iOS and Android tablets with a single codebase, with a faster and simpler development using HTML5, CSS3, and Javascripts, and a rapid and easier software maintenance.…”

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The Development of a Digital Dysphagia Guide with Care Homes: Co-Production and Evaluation of a Nutrition Support Tool

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Good nutrition is a recognised outcome in the health and well-being of older care home residents and dysphagia is a known risk factor associated with under nutrition and poor outcomes. The study co-produced a digital Dysphagia Guide with Care Homes using a consensus method with interviews and focus groups to prioritise the need for information and explore acceptability of an educational tool for care home workers. Evaluation of use, acceptability of design, and content of the guide were completed via remote monitoring. The workforce prioritised the need for training as well as the knowledge and skills in relation to planning resident-centred care and advice on textured diets. The technology was a means of offering ‘bite-size’ learning to enhance planning for nutrition across the whole organisation including managers, kitchen staff, and care workers. The Guide to Dysphagia was produced on a tablet and piloted in four care homes over 12 weeks, by 57 staff. Integrated analytics allowed user activity to be monitored. Findings showed that 73% of respondents reported the guide helped them in their job. Additionally, 88% of respondents stated they would recommend the guide to other staff, with 90% reporting it was easy to use. Engagement with staff and managers in four homes resulted in a co-designed, dysphagia guide.

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“…Finally, Apache Cordova fosters the development of hybrid apps using standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript [8]. As such, it is popular among web developers and has supported other mobile frameworks like Ionic and PhoneGap [9], [10].…”

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Amplifying Tests for Cross-Platform Apps through Test Patterns

Assis¹,

Menegassi²,

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2019

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Cross-platform app development has achieved meaningful results in practice with frameworks like React Native, Xamarin, and Apache Cordova. Unlike native apps, such frameworks support the development of a mobile app that can run in different platforms. Nevertheless, the literature lacks techniques to test cross-platform apps since most of the existing works focus on native Android apps. A promising strategy for native apps is to amplify test suites so that the specific characteristics of mobile apps can be tested. This paper aims to investigate the test amplification of cross-platform apps. To do so, we apply four test patterns that verify well-known characteristics of mobile computing and amplify existing test suites. The proposed approach has been implemented in a tool capable of generating Appium test scripts and was evaluated with nine cross-platform apps. The amplified test suites exercise new scenarios, uncovering 23 unique bugs in eight out of nine apps.

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The development of hybrid mobile applications with Apache Cordova

Cited by 21 publications

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An Analysis of Five Different Native and Web-Hybrid Platforms for Building Android Apps and their Accessibility for Screen Readers

An Analysis of Five Different Native and Web-Hybrid Platforms for Building Android Apps and their Accessibility for Screen Readers

The Development of a Digital Dysphagia Guide with Care Homes: Co-Production and Evaluation of a Nutrition Support Tool

Amplifying Tests for Cross-Platform Apps through Test Patterns

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