Duking it out at the smartphone mobile app mapping API corral: Apple, Google, and the competition

Proc. of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Int. Workshop on Mobile Geographic Inf. Systems, MobiGIS 2012 - In Conjunction with the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL Int. Conf. on Advances in Geographic Inf. Systems, GIS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 41-48

  Samet, Hanan ^a   Fruin, Brendan C ^a   Nutanong, Sarana ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

API; mapping; mobile applications; smartphones

Indexed keywords

API; ASSOCIATED COSTS; COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; MAPPING APPLICATIONS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SMALL FORM FACTORS; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; USER EXPERIENCE;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; FRUITS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MAPPING; MOBILE DEVICES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SMARTPHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84875127557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2442810.2442818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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