Pablo Javier Thomas

Multi-platform mobile application development analysis

Mobile devices have changed how we conceive software. There is a great range of development alternatives. In this paper, four different multi-platform development approaches (mobile web applications, hybrid, interpreted, and cross-compiled) are analyzed, and their most significant features through a case study are discussed.

A simplified multiplatform communication framework for mobile applications

The need for sharing information among mobile devices exists in many applications, and almost every data exchange between these devices involve the same requirements: a means for discovering other mobile devices in a wireless network, establishing logical connections, communicating application data, and gathering information related to the physical connection. This paper presents a multiplatform open-source developer-oriented framework that acts as a support layer for host discovery, data communication among devices, and quality of service monitoring. Its purpose is to simplify the issues related to networking for mobile application developers. Currently, the framework is implemented for different platforms, such as Android, J2SE, and J2ME.

Development frameworks for mobile devices: a comparative study about energy consumption

The development frameworks and the power efficiency in mobile devices have been studied separately. This paper deals with both topics together to determine how the selection of a development framework can impact on energy consumption of a mobile application. The focus is on applications with high processing load, audio and video playback. The results were analyzed and conclusions were reached.

Generation and Use of a Digest System by Integrating OCR and Smart Searches

A digest can be defined as a regulations repository which is manipulated by organizations for extended time periods. The search for information in this repositories can be tedious without assistance from an ad-hoc software application. This work presents the development of a Digest Software System with its architecture and integration with other base tools. Finally, two study cases are presented where the developed product is used.

Performance Evaluation of a 3D Engine for Mobile Devices

Currently there are several frameworks for the development of 3D mobile applications, but all of them have a common issue: performance is a critical aspect to consider, even more relevant than in desktop computers, which generally have a greater computing power. The profiling or performance analysis tools that these frameworks have can help, to some extent, to determine the possible existence of bottlenecks in the execution of applications. However, this type of tool has certain limitations such as covering only a spectrum of the possible causes of the problem or limiting the analysis to certain scenarios in particular. This article proposes an evaluation and impact measurement of the key features related with performance on 3D mobile applications.