Title :
Supporting Rapid Application Development on Symbian Platform
Author :
Forstner, Bertalan ; Lengyel, László ; Kelényi, Irrue ; Levendovszky, Tihamér ; Charaf, Hassan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. & Appl. Informatics, Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ.
Abstract :
Programniing for the Symbian OS assumes that developers invest particular and uncommon work, therefore the development lifecycle is rather longer and the costs are usually higher than these of common C++ software development. Dealing with user interface, database or communication, programming is not so straightforward as expected. However, am appropriate developer tool can help the developers to be more efficient and solve the designing and programming difficulties. In this paper we will introduce a rapid application development tool set on the Symbian OS. We model the user interface and the statechart of the mobile applications with a novel tool (Visual Modeling and Transformation System). After this design phase, source code can be generated. We describe a class library that helps the programmers or code generators to produce Symbian source code that is easy to read and maintain
Keywords :
formal specification; meta data; mobile computing; operating systems (computers); program compilers; programming environments; software libraries; software tools; visual programming; Symbian OS; Symbian platform; Visual Modeling and Transformation System; class library; development lifecycle; graph rewriting; metamodelling; mobile applications; rapid application development tool; software development; source code generation; user interface; Application software; Costs; Databases; Libraries; Programming profession; User interfaces; Symbian; graph rewriting; metamodeling; mobile development; model transformation; rapid application development;
Conference_Titel :
Computer as a Tool, 2005. EUROCON 2005.The International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Belgrade
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0049-X
DOI :
10.1109/EURCON.2005.1629861