An Automated Model-Based Approach for Developing Mobile User Interfaces

The ever-increasing number of mobile platforms constitutes a challenge for application developers, who must develop efficient mobile applications for multiple platforms. Recently, a specific interest is being taken in the Model Based User Interface Development (MBUID) by Software Engineering Community. In such paradigm, an application's user interface is obtained by defining models and transformations of those models. This paper aim at adopting MBUID paradigm to address the problem of mobile application development. As such, we propose a new approach and its support system for the automatic generation of mobile user interfaces. The approach and the system are based on a set of standards and relevant technologies such as EMF, GMF, ATL, and Xpand. A case study is presented, in the paper, with the aim of verifying the usefulness of this approach.