GUI code generation for Android applications using a MDA approach

Author

Sabraoui, A. ; Koutbi, M.E. ; Khriss, I.

Author_Institution

Mobile Intell. Syst. Team (MIS), Ecole Nat. Super. d´Inf. et d´Anal. des Syst. (ENSIAS), Rabat, Morocco

fYear

2012

fDate

5-6 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Developing applications for mobile platforms is a compound task, due to variability of mobile OSs and the number of different devices that need to be supported. Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approach could provide a possible solution to provide an automated way to generate a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for such applications. In this paper, we propose an approach based on MDA, to generate GUI for mobile applications on smartphones. The adopted approach consists of three main steps (i) analyzing and modeling the GUI under UML; (ii) transforming the obtained diagrams to a simplified XMI schema using JDOM API; and (iii) generating the GUI based on MDA. Our method has the advantages to generate automatically GUI for several platforms, and gives a graphical way for designing in UML.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; application program interfaces; graphical user interfaces; operating systems (computers); program compilers; smart phones; software engineering; Android applications; GUI code generation; JDOM API; MDA approach; UML; graphical user interface; mobile OS; mobile platforms; model-driven architecture approach; simplified XMI schema; smartphones; Androids; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Graphical user interfaces; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Unified modeling language; GUI for mobile applications; MDA; Metamodel; Mobile; UML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex Systems (ICCS), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Agadir

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4764-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICoCS.2012.6458567

Filename

6458567