Making apps useable on multiple different mobile platforms: On interoperability for business application development on smartphones

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7465 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 176-189

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Treitler, Peter ^a   Slany, Wolfgang ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

app development; cross platform; Mobile computing; mobile platforms; multi platform; smartphones; usability engineering; user interfaces

Indexed keywords

APP DEVELOPMENT; BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; BUSINESS ENTERPRISE; CROSS-PLATFORM; DATABASE ACCESS; DISPLAY RESOLUTIONS; END USERS; INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS; MOBILE ACCESS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE PLATFORM; MULTI-PLATFORM; SCALING METHOD; SCREEN SIZES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ASPECT RATIO; DISPLAY DEVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SCREEN PRINTING; SMARTPHONES; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84865652663     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32498-7_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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