Adroitness: An Android-based Middleware for Fast Development of High-performance Apps
This addresses the problem for mobile app developers by providing a tool to streamline development, though it appears incremental as it builds upon existing Android frameworks.
The paper tackles the challenge of mobile app development by proposing a middleware architecture that reduces the burden of low-level architectural decisions, demonstrating its effectiveness through comparisons with Android's conventional framework using software metrics.
As smartphones become increasingly more powerful, a new generation of highly interactive user-centric mobile apps emerge to make user's life simpler and more productive. Mobile phones applications have to sustain limited resource availability on mobile devices such as battery life, network connectivity while also providing better responsiveness, lightweight interactions within the application. Developers end up spending a considerable amount of time dealing with the architecture constraints imposed by the wide variety of platforms, tools, and devices offered by the mobile ecosystem, thereby diverting them from their main goal of building such apps. Therefore, we propose a mobile-based middleware architecture that alleviates the burdensome task of dealing with low-level architectural decisions and fine-grained implementation details. We achieve such a goal by focusing on the separation of concerns and abstracting away the complexity of orchestrating device sensors and effectors, decision-making processes, and connection to remote services, while providing scaffolding for the development of higher-level functional features of interactive high-performance mobile apps. We demonstrate the powerfulness of our approach vs. Android's conventional framework by comparing different software metric