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A Case Study on Cross-Platform Development Frameworks for Mobile Applications and UX
Year:2014
Research Areas
  • Information technology and adata processing
Information
Abstract
Cross-platform development frameworks for mobile applications promise important advantages in cost cuttings and easy maintenance, posing as a very good option for organizations interested in the design of mobile applications for several platforms. Given that platform conventions are especially important for the User eXperience (UX) of mobile applications, the usage of a framework where the same code defines the behavior of the app in different platforms could have a negative impact in the UX. This paper describes a study where two independent teams have designed two different versions of a mobile application, one using a framework that generates Android and iOS versions automatically, and another team using native tools. The alternative versions for each platform have been evaluated with 37 users with a combination of a laboratory usability test and a longitudinal study. The results show that differences are minimal in the Android platform, but in iOS, even if a reasonably good UX can be obtained with the usage of this framework by an UX-conscious design team, a higher level of UX can be obtained directly developing with a native tool.
International
No
Congress
XV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (Interacción' 14)
960
Place
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, España
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-4503-2880-7
10.1145/2662253.2662280
Start Date
10/09/2014
End Date
12/09/2014
From page
1
To page
8
Proceedings of the XV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction.
Participants
Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería del Software
  • Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software