MDA Approach to Automate Code Generation for Mobile Applications

摘要

The development of mobile applications is increasingly growing up in our environment due to the intensive use of applications in mobile devices with touch screens. However, the diversity of mobile operating systems (iOS, Windows Phone, Android, etc.), requires additional cares like code efficiency, interaction with device resources, as well as short time to market. What makes developers facing a big challenge of developing the same application for different platforms. Considering this development complexity, we directed our work to platforms using Model Driven Architecture (MDA) combined with UML, as previously used in software engineering, can offer abstraction and automation for mobile applications developers. This paper presents a MDA approach for mobile applications development including UML based modeling and code generation according to the principal (Develop Once, Use Everywhere) in order to facilitate and accelerate the development of mobile applications.