Bootstrapping Mobile App Development

Author

Barnett, Scott ; Vasa, Rajesh ; Grundy, John

Author_Institution

Centre for Comput. & Eng. Software Syst. & Software Innovation Lab., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2015

Firstpage

657

Lastpage

660

Abstract

Modern IDEs provide limited support for developers when starting a new data-driven mobile app. App developers are currently required to write copious amounts of boilerplate code, scripts, organise complex directories, and author actual functionality. Although this scenario is ripe for automation, current tools are yet to address it adequately. In this paper we present RAPPT, a tool that generates the scaffolding of a mobile app based on a high level description specified in a Domain Specific Language (DSL). We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by an example case study and feedback from a professional development team. Demo at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffquVgBYpLM.

Keywords

application program interfaces; mobile computing; specification languages; DSL; IDE; RAPPT tool; data-driven mobile app; domain specific language; integrated development environment; mobile application development; Androids; DSL; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Motion pictures; Productivity; Software engineering; Code Generation; Mobile App Prototyping; Model Driven Development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (ICSE), 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2015.216

Filename

7203036