COMPARING CROSS-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Henning Heitkötter, Sebastian Hanschke, Tim A. Majchrzak

2012

Abstract

While smartphones are rapidly gaining popularity, they do not (yet) rely on a standardized platform. At least five operating systems are considered important. Developing mobile applications (apps) is thus challenging. Since native development for several platforms requires extreme effort, we designed criteria to assess crossplatform development approaches. We applied our criteria to Web apps, to apps developed with PhoneGap and Titanium Mobile, and – for comparison – to natively developed apps. Particularly the two frameworks are interesting from a Web developer’s perspective since they bridge the gap between Web development and mobile information systems. Our findings are presented as reference tables. Furthermore, we generalize our results. Our criteria have proven to be viable for follow-up evaluations. With regard to the approaches, we specifically found PhoneGap viable if very close resemblance of a native look & feel can be neglected.

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in Harvard Style

Heitkötter H., Hanschke S. and Majchrzak T. (2012). COMPARING CROSS-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-08-2, pages 299-311. DOI: 10.5220/0003904502990311

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist12,
author={Henning Heitkötter and Sebastian Hanschke and Tim A. Majchrzak},
title={COMPARING CROSS-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2012},
pages={299-311},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003904502990311},
isbn={978-989-8565-08-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - COMPARING CROSS-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-989-8565-08-2
AU - Heitkötter H.
AU - Hanschke S.
AU - Majchrzak T.
PY - 2012
SP - 299
EP - 311
DO - 10.5220/0003904502990311