Research Paper Review
Title: “Future Trends in Software Engineering Research for Mobile Apps”
Abstract:
This paper provides an important software research issues related to development and future of application that run on mobile devices. This paper also includes current and future research work in the field of mobile apps like software development life cycle non-functional requirements i.e. Energy and Security.
Introduction:
In the context of this paper, a mobile app is defined as the application developed for the current generation of mobile devices popularly known as smart phones. These apps are often distributed through a centralized app market majorly in the forms of Apple’s app store and Google’s play store each having more than 1.5
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Typically app stores restrict the public to be able to see only a subset of all the reviews. In the case of Google Play it is 500 reviews. In the case of the Windows Marketplace, they allow you to see as many as can be loaded in the page before the browser crashes. One interesting problem that has already been addressed by app markets like Google Play is the ability for the developer to reply to user reviews when they have addressed a requirement. There are also some risk mentioned that includes poor user review that lead to poor requirements of app.
In comparison of android and iOS apps most of work has been done for android platform this is due to fact that android platform is more open than other platforms like black berry. Development of a cross platform app is very troublesome due to the fact that it may be difficult link the apps across the app market. In order to develop cross platform apps there are several frameworks available such as Sencha, Cocos2d and Corona but such apps may have adverse effect on its user interface. There is also a need to build indicators to determine an app will likely have venerable code in or not. The area of software maintenance is one of the most searched areas in Software Engineering. In the recent past the mobile apps are small and it get very quick releases so this may affect the maintenance of apps and it may overlap.
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The significance of search to the success or failure is the development of applications and software’s expectations. Furthermore, they are a task that all companies have to take in the mobile computing market. Whether if it’s Apple, Google, Facebook or any other famous companies, they need to be looked into great detail and precision. The importance is that Google based their growth predictions in mobile applications. The scenario for mobile applications is that Google has been the tough competitor of mobile IT firms. Facebook and Apple have tough competition even when a common platform for application usage is formed. Their strategy will succeed if they create a strong business strategy that competes each other and gain revenue, in addition, that they will receive a stronger reputation towards each
Abstract- The usage of smart phones is increasing nowadays, so the need for mobile applications has also increased as they make the life of end users easy. Android platform is one of the platforms that make the usage and development of these applications easy. As android is open source and the development of application and its usage is easy these features make android platform one of the popular platforms for a mobile application. [Ref-4]
Software Engineering for Mobile Application Development: Challenges and Research In the recent years we have seen rapid growth of applications of mobile devices popularly known as “APPS”. Recent surveys show that there are enormous numbers of mobile application developers. Although there is a growing trend of these mobile applications, very few make it to the top charts of the devices thereby pushing the application developers to provide with high quality, and useful applications. Software engineering comes in to picture here, thereby leading the development of the application through different life cycle phases for good quality output. This paper presents the different challenges faced by the developers such as (a) building good user interfaces(b) support for multiplatform (c) dealing with uncertainities. (d) change according to the environment. For each of the above stated challenges we provide the current trends and advances done, along with the challenges that are faced in developing the application and also the future risks and availabilities for developing the project.
equipped smartphones in general, has been the success of the App Store. A vibrant selection of applications (apps) distinguishes Apple s offerings from its competitors' and gives the company a
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The rise of Location Sharing Social Networks have given birth to a whole set of software that are geared towards geo visualization of Social Networks. According to Luo et al. (2011) the current range of software can be classified into two broad categories according to their focus. 1. Focus on the spatializing network structures 2. Focus on combining spatial analysis with social network analysis. For the purpose of integrating SNA with geography however, the first class of software are not appropriate as they are general purpose network visualization tool that represent networks like origin-destination networks or flow networks. We focus our attention to only the second category of software that are specifically made for spatial network
A lot of users will be coming in contact with your app and the way you can ensure everyone can access it is to make your app work on any digitally enhanced mobile devices. So, as you are planning to launch your app, take out some time to examine if your app can be
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