Evaluating Frameworks for Creating Mobile Web Apps

Henning Heitkötter, Tim A. Majchrzak, Benjamin Ruland, Till Weber

2013

Abstract

Mobile Web apps are an alternative to native apps when developing mobile applications for more than one platform. They can be accessed from almost any current smartphone and tablet using a browser. However, developing a Web app adapted to the particularities of mobile devices such as limited screen size and touch-based interaction requires consideration and effort. Several frameworks with different strengths and weaknesses support creating mobile Web apps. In this paper, we develop a set of criteria to be met by mobile Web frameworks of high quality. Based on these criteria, we evaluate jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, The-M-Project, and Google Web Toolkit combined with mgwt, thereby assessing their suitability for certain situations. We find Sencha Touch suited for mobile Web apps of moderate and increased complexity, while jQuery Mobile is a good starting point for apps primarily concerned with a mobile user interface.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Heitkötter H., Majchrzak T., Ruland B. and Weber T. (2013). Evaluating Frameworks for Creating Mobile Web Apps . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 209-221. DOI: 10.5220/0004356702090221

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist13,
author={Henning Heitkötter and Tim A. Majchrzak and Benjamin Ruland and Till Weber},
title={Evaluating Frameworks for Creating Mobile Web Apps},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2013},
pages={209-221},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004356702090221},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Evaluating Frameworks for Creating Mobile Web Apps
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Heitkötter H.
AU - Majchrzak T.
AU - Ruland B.
AU - Weber T.
PY - 2013
SP - 209
EP - 221
DO - 10.5220/0004356702090221