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Speed Up Native Mobile Form Development

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Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS 2016)

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The development of native user interface components is a time consuming and repetitive process, especially for quite simple components like text fields in a form. In order to save time during development an approach is presented in this paper, abstracting the description of the elements into separate files independent from the source code. With aspects from generative and model-driven approaches this leads to simple reusable UI components without the need of deep knowledge in native programming languages.

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    https://cordova.apache.org.

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    E.g. Push Notification, File Handling, etc.

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    Complexity hereby means the amount of attributes, how they are nested and the amount of knowledge required to implement such a form.

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    http://json-schema.org.

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    https://bitbucket.org/snippets/siobra/b4gqg.

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  1. HTWG Konstanz, Brauneggerstr. 55, Konstanz, 78462, Germany

    Armin Engesser & Ralf Schimkat

  2. Siobra GbR, Kaltbrunner Str. 24, Allensbach, 78476, Germany

    Mike Groezinger

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  1. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Muhammad Younas

  2. University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

    Irfan Awan

  3. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Natalia Kryvinska

  4. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Christine Strauss

  5. Telenor R&D, Fornebu, Norway

    Do van Thanh

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Engesser, A., Groezinger, M., Schimkat, R. (2016). Speed Up Native Mobile Form Development. In: Younas, M., Awan, I., Kryvinska, N., Strauss, C., Thanh, D. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9847. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44215-0_29

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