An experiment in developing small mobile phone applications comparing on-phone to off-phone development

Nguyen, Nguyen; Rumee,; Csallner,; Tillmann, Lisa M.

doi:10.1109/user.2012.6226586

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“…iPhone runs their own developed operating system called iOS built in Objective-C programming language [18] [19]. There are many other versions available with different iPhone devices.…”

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Resource management and security issues in mobile phone operating systems: A comparative analysis

Awan

Waqar

Faseeh

et al. 2017

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Nowadays Mobile phones are becoming more popular in our daily lives. Mobile technology has a great effect on human life. Our daily tasks are dependent on mobile devices. Memory Management (MM), Security and Performance plays an important role in every handheld device specially in mobile phones, which are very much dependent on their operating system (OS). These embedded operating systems are on the driving seat when we talk about efficient and useful memory management and secure handling. Three popular OS in mobile phones are Android, Windows and iOS (iPhone OS). Each OS has its own way of managing the memory and provide it to certain number of applications. Android is an open software available for the people to modify as per their needs. But Windows and iOS operating systems didn"t allow their software as open source. Researchers have done a large amount of work using different mechanisms and decision makings to develop new ways to manage the memory of these OS"s. This work shows a comparative analysis of different memory management and security related techniques in above three operating systems. In this paper, we present the analysis of memory management and security in mobile phone operating systems with respect to apps, main memory, cache memory and virtual memory. Also, we compare the overall performance of these OS"s in terms of MM, security concerns. This study will help in finding better operating system in terms of efficient memory management and security.

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“…iPhone runs their own developed operating system called iOS built in Objective-C programming language [18] [19]. There are many other versions available with different iPhone devices.…”

Section: Ios Operating Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resource management and security issues in mobile phone operating systems: A comparative analysis

Awan

Waqar

Faseeh

et al. 2017

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“…We could address this issue by adopting a more precise heap abstraction, but number of lines in the textual representation returned by the TouchDevelop compiler API, which may differ from the visualization in the editor. Note that experiments have shown that Android implementations are about four times longer than TouchDevelop scripts with the same functionality [23]. this would affect performance negatively.…”

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Static analysis for independent app developers

Brutschy

Ferrara

Müller

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages &Amp; Applications

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“…Nguyen et al [6] conducted a user study to compare programming productivity of TouchDevelop with the traditional off-device approach. They found that for small tasks, a programmer was more productive in writing TouchDevelop apps than writing Android apps.…”

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“…Answers to these questions may not only provide important guidelines for enhancing end-user programming and improving tool support or services to end users, but also reveal valuable opportunities for drawing more end users and increasing the popularity of on-device app development. Although there have been some studies on the functionalities and code changes of TouchDevelop scripts [5] and the programming productivity with TouchDevelop [6], a lot of questions still remain unaddressed, calling for more efforts for investigation.…”

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A comprehensive field study of end-user programming on mobile devices

Xie

Tillmann

2013

2013 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

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Abstract-TouchDevelop represents a radically new programming environment that enables users to develop mobile applications directly on mobile devices. TouchDevelop has successfully drawn a huge number of end users, who have published thousands of TouchDevelop scripts online. To enhance end-user programming on mobile devices, we conduct the first comprehensive field study of 17322 TouchDevelop scripts and 4275 users. Our study consists of an overall study on the characteristics of scripts (e.g., structural features, code reuse) and users (e.g., expertise), and a longitudinal study on how they evolve over time. Our study results show important characteristics of scripts such as dense external method calls, high code reuse ratio, and also reveal interesting evolution patterns of users. The findings and implications in our study provide valuable guidelines for improving tool support or services for end users and increasing the popularity of end-user programming on mobile devices.

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An experiment in developing small mobile phone applications comparing on-phone to off-phone development

Cited by 11 publications

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Resource management and security issues in mobile phone operating systems: A comparative analysis

Resource management and security issues in mobile phone operating systems: A comparative analysis

Static analysis for independent app developers

A comprehensive field study of end-user programming on mobile devices

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